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Commit ffa571da authored by Davidlohr Bueso's avatar Davidlohr Bueso Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ipc,msg: document barriers



Both expunge_all() and pipeline_send() rely on both a nil msg value and
a full barrier to guarantee the correct ordering when waking up a task.

While its counterpart at the receiving end is well documented for the
lockless recv algorithm, we still need to document these specific
smp_mb() calls.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Mike]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: mroe tpyos]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent daf948c7
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