X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fmemory-barriers.txt;h=58408dd023c77e0e0712d02811fc0238c5ee1742;hb=b286f7ba302816c7176efcd0d458263dd598d7bc;hp=7f790f66ec68528776852d15a3f60ab60dcd94b6;hpb=6d03a68e6d5528630955452ec4b768dbde0dc00c;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 7f790f66ec6..58408dd023c 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ There are some minimal guarantees that may be expected of a CPU: STORE *X = c, d = LOAD *X - (Loads and stores overlap if they are targetted at overlapping pieces of + (Loads and stores overlap if they are targeted at overlapping pieces of memory). And there are a number of things that _must_ or _must_not_ be assumed: @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions: (*) set_mb(var, value) - This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write + 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 insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation.