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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index a9454b1c73bd..fb2dd35a823a 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -4,8 +4,24 @@ By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> + Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> + Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> -Contents: +========== +DISCLAIMER +========== + +This document is not a specification; it is intentionally (for the sake of +brevity) and unintentionally (due to being human) incomplete. This document is +meant as a guide to using the various memory barriers provided by Linux, but +in case of any doubt (and there are many) please ask. + +To repeat, this document is not a specification of what Linux expects from +hardware. + +======== +CONTENTS +======== (*) Abstract memory access model. |