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authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2016-01-28 19:02:44 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-01-29 09:40:10 +0100
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locking/x86: Tweak the comment about use of wmb() for IO
On x86, we *do* still use the non-NOP rmb()/wmb() for IO barriers, but even that is generally questionable. Leave them around as historial unless somebody can point to a case where they care about the performance, but tweak the comment so people don't think they are strictly required in all cases. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453921746-16178-4-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
index a29174599a983..bfb28caf97b1b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
/*
* Force strict CPU ordering.
- * And yes, this is required on UP too when we're talking
+ * And yes, this might be required on UP too when we're talking
* to devices.
*/