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-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-barriers.txt2
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
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@@ -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.