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documentation: Clarify wake-up/memory-barrier relationship
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 13 May 2014 17:14:51 +0000 (10:14 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 8 Jul 2014 15:13:03 +0000 (08:13 -0700)
commit5726ce06ad6bcd8dd75a204d1465c99a2f897d3a
treec3240a49d769fc49f0fee614f63c897ddce87f3b
parent4a81e8328d3791a4f99bf5b436d050f6dc5ffea3
documentation: Clarify wake-up/memory-barrier relationship

This commit adds an example demonstrating that if a wake_up() doesn't
actually wake something up, no memory ordering is provided.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt