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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-18 11:10:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-04-18 11:10:49 -0400 |
| commit | d6a24d0640d609138a4e40a4ce9fd9fe7859e24c (patch) | |
| tree | aa40fb7f5d03dc605634fb4030afd8798bd6bc0b /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
| parent | 1f5014d6a77513fa7cefe30eb7791d5856c04384 (diff) | |
| parent | 197175427a221fe3200f7727ea35e261727e7228 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Numerous fixes, the overdue removal of the i2o docs, some new Chinese
translations, and, hopefully, the README fix that will end the flow of
identical patches to that file"
* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (34 commits)
Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status
Documentation: blackfin: Makefile: Typo building issue
Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt: correct location of page-types tool
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: typo fix
doc: Add guest_nice column to example output of `cat /proc/stat'
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move "eagerfpu" to its right place
Documentation: gpio: Update ACPI part of the document to mention _DSD
docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and corrections
doc: completion: context, scope and language fixes
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt
Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
DocBook media: fix broken EIA hyperlink
Documentation: tweak the maintainers entry
README: Change gzip/bzip2 to xz compression format
README: Update version number reference
doc:pci: Fix typo in Documentation/PCI
Documentation: drm: Use '->' when describing access through pointers.
Documentation: Remove mentioning of block barriers
Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 6974f1c2b4e1..f95746189b5d 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1727,7 +1727,7 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions: } The dma_rmb() allows us guarantee the device has released ownership - before we read the data from the descriptor, and he dma_wmb() allows + before we read the data from the descriptor, and the dma_wmb() allows us to guarantee the data is written to the descriptor before the device can see it now has ownership. The wmb() is needed to guarantee that the cache coherent memory writes have completed before attempting a write to |