Commit 75b2bd55 authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] A minor fix for set_mb() in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

set_mb() is used by set_current_state() which needs mb(), not wmb().  I
think it would be right to assume that set_mb() implies mb(), all arches
seem to do just this.
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent d654c673
......@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
(*) set_mb(var, value)
This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write
This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts a full memory
barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to
insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation.
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