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Commit-ID:  2f359c7ea554ba9cb78a52c82bedff351cdabd2b
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/2f359c7ea554ba9cb78a52c82bedff351cdabd2b
Author:     Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:29:20 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 10:28:05 +0200

locking/memory-barriers: Replace smp_cond_acquire() with smp_cond_load_acquire()

Amend the changes in commit:

  1f03e8d2919270 ("locking/barriers: Replace smp_cond_acquire() with smp_cond_load_acquire()")

... by updating the documentation accordingly.

Also remove some obsolete information related to the implementation.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
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---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 0d8d7ef131e9..c1d913944ad8 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -471,8 +471,7 @@ And a couple of implicit varieties:
      operations after the ACQUIRE operation will appear to happen after the
      ACQUIRE operation with respect to the other components of the system.
      ACQUIRE operations include LOCK operations and both smp_load_acquire()
-     and smp_cond_acquire() operations. The later builds the necessary ACQUIRE
-     semantics from relying on a control dependency and smp_rmb().
+     and smp_cond_load_acquire() operations.
 
      Memory operations that occur before an ACQUIRE operation may appear to
      happen after it completes.