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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html index 62e847bcdcdd..571c3d75510f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html @@ -581,7 +581,8 @@ This guarantee was only partially premeditated. DYNIX/ptx used an explicit memory barrier for publication, but had nothing resembling <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt> for subscription, nor did it have anything resembling the <tt>smp_read_barrier_depends()</tt> -that was later subsumed into <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt>. +that was later subsumed into <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt> and later +still into <tt>READ_ONCE()</tt>. The need for these operations made itself known quite suddenly at a late-1990s meeting with the DEC Alpha architects, back in the days when DEC was still a free-standing company. |