[PATCH] A minor fix for set_mb() in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
set_mb() is used by set_current_state() which needs mb(), not wmb(). I think it would be right to assume that set_mb() implies mb(), all arches seem to do just this. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions:
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(*) set_mb(var, value)
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This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write
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This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts a full memory
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barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to
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insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation.
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