linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/7] docs/memory-barriers.txt: Remove remaining references to mmiowb()

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Message-Id: <20191121234125.28032-6-sj38.park@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:41:23 +0100
From:   SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>
To:     corbet@....net, will@...nel.org, paulmck@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] docs/memory-barriers.txt: Remove remaining references to mmiowb()

This commit removes references to sections erased by Commit 915530396c78
("Documentation: Kill all references to mmiowb()").

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 1adbb8a371c7..ec3b5865c1be 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ CONTENTS
 
      - Compiler barrier.
      - CPU memory barriers.
-     - MMIO write barrier.
 
  (*) Implicit kernel memory barriers.
 
@@ -75,7 +74,6 @@ CONTENTS
  (*) Inter-CPU acquiring barrier effects.
 
      - Acquires vs memory accesses.
-     - Acquires vs I/O accesses.
 
  (*) Where are memory barriers needed?
 
@@ -492,10 +490,9 @@ And a couple of implicit varieties:
      happen before it completes.
 
      The use of ACQUIRE and RELEASE operations generally precludes the need
-     for other sorts of memory barrier (but note the exceptions mentioned in
-     the subsection "MMIO write barrier").  In addition, a RELEASE+ACQUIRE
-     pair is -not- guaranteed to act as a full memory barrier.  However, after
-     an ACQUIRE on a given variable, all memory accesses preceding any prior
+     for other sorts of memory barrier.  In addition, a RELEASE+ACQUIRE pair is
+     -not- guaranteed to act as a full memory barrier.  However, after an
+     ACQUIRE on a given variable, all memory accesses preceding any prior
      RELEASE on that same variable are guaranteed to be visible.  In other
      words, within a given variable's critical section, all accesses of all
      previous critical sections for that variable are guaranteed to have
@@ -1512,8 +1509,6 @@ levels:
 
   (*) CPU memory barriers.
 
-  (*) MMIO write barrier.
-
 
 COMPILER BARRIER
 ----------------
-- 
2.17.2