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doc: Rewrite confusing statement about memory barriers
authorGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:29:01 +0000 (16:29 -0300)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:09:32 +0000 (11:09 -0700)
commiteebc1679441f7cde2426b2285ca62e1f1642af1c
tree46b532f50defd2f014896f0287074a18f52770e9
parent310cfa34e831320a7141992987a1c424a9b18023
doc: Rewrite confusing statement about memory barriers

The "Write (or store) memory barriers" bullet of the "Variety of memory
barriers" section, calls out a sequential order of stores, which is
confusing since sequential ordering is not guaranteed.

This commit therefore rewords to avoid mentioning a sequence of stores
to clarify the intent.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt