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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-18 11:10:49 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-18 11:10:49 -0400
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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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@@ -1727,7 +1727,7 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
1727 } 1727 }
1728 1728
1729 The dma_rmb() allows us guarantee the device has released ownership 1729 The dma_rmb() allows us guarantee the device has released ownership
1730 before we read the data from the descriptor, and he dma_wmb() allows 1730 before we read the data from the descriptor, and the dma_wmb() allows
1731 us to guarantee the data is written to the descriptor before the device 1731 us to guarantee the data is written to the descriptor before the device
1732 can see it now has ownership. The wmb() is needed to guarantee that the 1732 can see it now has ownership. The wmb() is needed to guarantee that the
1733 cache coherent memory writes have completed before attempting a write to 1733 cache coherent memory writes have completed before attempting a write to