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From: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
To: corbet@lwn.net, will@kernel.org, paulmck@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] docs/memory-barriers.txt: Remove remaining references to mmiowb()
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:41:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191121234125.28032-6-sj38.park@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191121234125.28032-1-sj38.park@gmail.com>

This commit removes references to sections erased by Commit 915530396c78
("Documentation: Kill all references to mmiowb()").

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 1adbb8a371c7..ec3b5865c1be 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ CONTENTS
 
      - Compiler barrier.
      - CPU memory barriers.
-     - MMIO write barrier.
 
  (*) Implicit kernel memory barriers.
 
@@ -75,7 +74,6 @@ CONTENTS
  (*) Inter-CPU acquiring barrier effects.
 
      - Acquires vs memory accesses.
-     - Acquires vs I/O accesses.
 
  (*) Where are memory barriers needed?
 
@@ -492,10 +490,9 @@ And a couple of implicit varieties:
      happen before it completes.
 
      The use of ACQUIRE and RELEASE operations generally precludes the need
-     for other sorts of memory barrier (but note the exceptions mentioned in
-     the subsection "MMIO write barrier").  In addition, a RELEASE+ACQUIRE
-     pair is -not- guaranteed to act as a full memory barrier.  However, after
-     an ACQUIRE on a given variable, all memory accesses preceding any prior
+     for other sorts of memory barrier.  In addition, a RELEASE+ACQUIRE pair is
+     -not- guaranteed to act as a full memory barrier.  However, after an
+     ACQUIRE on a given variable, all memory accesses preceding any prior
      RELEASE on that same variable are guaranteed to be visible.  In other
      words, within a given variable's critical section, all accesses of all
      previous critical sections for that variable are guaranteed to have
@@ -1512,8 +1509,6 @@ levels:
 
   (*) CPU memory barriers.
 
-  (*) MMIO write barrier.
-
 
 COMPILER BARRIER
 ----------------
-- 
2.17.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-21 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-21 23:41 [PATCH 0/7] docs: Update ko_KR translations SeongJae Park
2019-11-21 23:41 ` [PATCH 1/7] docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Rewrite "KERNEL I/O BARRIER EFFECTS" section SeongJae Park
2019-11-21 23:41 ` [PATCH 2/7] Documentation/kokr: Kill all references to mmiowb() SeongJae Park
2019-11-21 23:41 ` [PATCH 3/7] docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Fix style, spacing and grammar in I/O section SeongJae Park
2019-11-21 23:41 ` [PATCH 4/7] docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update I/O section to be clearer about CPU vs thread SeongJae Park
2019-11-21 23:41 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2019-11-21 23:41 ` [PATCH 6/7] Documentation/translation: Use Korean for Korean translation title SeongJae Park
2019-11-21 23:41 ` [PATCH 7/7] Documentation/process/howto/kokr: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning SeongJae Park
2019-11-22 17:01 ` [PATCH 0/7] docs: Update ko_KR translations Jonathan Corbet
2019-11-26 22:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-26 22:36   ` SeongJae Park
2019-11-27 14:12   ` Jonathan Corbet
2019-11-27 14:27     ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-29 18:28       ` [PATCH] docs/memory-barriers.txt.kokr: Minor wordsmith SeongJae Park
2019-12-06 17:21         ` SeongJae Park
2019-12-12 17:30           ` SeongJae Park
2019-12-19 16:41         ` Jonathan Corbet

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