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    SubjectRe: [v3,11/41] mips: reuse asm-generic/barrier.h
    On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:24:02AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

    > Yeah, this goes under the header: memory-barriers.txt is _NOT_ a
    > specification (I seem to keep repeating this).

    Do we want this ?

    ---
    Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
    1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

    diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
    index a61be39c7b51..433326ebdc26 100644
    --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
    +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
    @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
    +
    ============================
    LINUX KERNEL MEMORY BARRIERS
    ============================
    @@ -5,6 +6,22 @@
    By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

    +==========
    +DISCLAIMER
    +==========
    +
    +This document is not a specification; it is intentionally (for the sake of
    +brevity) and unintentionally (due to being human) incomplete. This document is
    +meant as a guide to using the various memory barriers provided by Linux, but
    +in case of any doubt (and there are many) please ask.
    +
    +I repeat, this document is not a specification of what Linux expects from
    +hardware.
    +
    +=====
    +INDEX
    +=====
    +
    Contents:

    (*) Abstract memory access model.
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