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diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt index 913396ac5824..ed0d814df7e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt +++ b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt @@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ These helper barriers exist because architectures have varying implicit ordering on their SMP atomic primitives. For example our TSO architectures provide full ordered atomics and these barriers are no-ops. +NOTE: when the atomic RmW ops are fully ordered, they should also imply a +compiler barrier. + Thus: atomic_fetch_add(); |