On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:10:48PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Amend commit 1f03e8d2919270 ("locking/barriers: Replace smp_cond_acquire()
> with smp_cond_load_acquire()") by updating the documentation accordingly.
> Also remove some obsolete information related to the implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> index 0d8d7ef131e9..c1d913944ad8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> @@ -471,8 +471,7 @@ And a couple of implicit varieties:
> operations after the ACQUIRE operation will appear to happen after the
> ACQUIRE operation with respect to the other components of the system.
> ACQUIRE operations include LOCK operations and both smp_load_acquire()
> - and smp_cond_acquire() operations. The later builds the necessary ACQUIRE
> - semantics from relying on a control dependency and smp_rmb().
> + and smp_cond_load_acquire() operations.
Thanks for fixing the doc:
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Will
