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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index b759a60624fd..470a682f3fa4 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1886,18 +1886,6 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions: See Documentation/atomic_{t,bitops}.txt for more information. - (*) lockless_dereference(); - - This can be thought of as a pointer-fetch wrapper around the - smp_read_barrier_depends() data-dependency barrier. - - This is also similar to rcu_dereference(), but in cases where - object lifetime is handled by some mechanism other than RCU, for - example, when the objects removed only when the system goes down. - In addition, lockless_dereference() is used in some data structures - that can be used both with and without RCU. - - (*) dma_wmb(); (*) dma_rmb(); |