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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2015-05-12 10:51:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-05-19 08:32:00 +0200 |
| commit | b92b8b35a2e38bde319fd1d68ec84628c1f1b0fb (patch) | |
| tree | 45aea6d12a580b60848363c10dc355f3307ec1ff /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
| parent | ab3f02fc237211f0583c1e7ba3bf504747be9b8d (diff) | |
| download | linux-b92b8b35a2e38bde319fd1d68ec84628c1f1b0fb.tar.bz2 | |
locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb()
Since set_mb() is really about an smp_mb() -- not a IO/DMA barrier
like mb() rename it to match the recent smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release().
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/memory-barriers.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index f95746189b5d..fe4020e4b468 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ CPU from reordering them. There are some more advanced barrier functions: - (*) set_mb(var, value) + (*) smp_store_mb(var, value) 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 @@ -1975,7 +1975,7 @@ after it has altered the task state: CPU 1 =============================== set_current_state(); - set_mb(); + smp_store_mb(); STORE current->state <general barrier> LOAD event_indicated @@ -2016,7 +2016,7 @@ between the STORE to indicate the event and the STORE to set TASK_RUNNING: CPU 1 CPU 2 =============================== =============================== set_current_state(); STORE event_indicated - set_mb(); wake_up(); + smp_store_mb(); wake_up(); STORE current->state <write barrier> <general barrier> STORE current->state LOAD event_indicated |