doc: Clarify historical disclaimers in memory-barriers.txt
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 18:04:27 +0000 (11:04 -0700)
committerNeeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:46:28 +0000 (01:16 +0530)
commitad9446302919ee3a646ad667a9ea15f992685dca
tree2aebbabf056054d7f910dde708cc2985a1e7017c
parentc49956be75152a533787f5daa06ef4b710207499
doc: Clarify historical disclaimers in memory-barriers.txt

This commit makes it clear that the reason that these sections are
historical is that smp_read_barrier_depends() is no more.  It also
removes the point about comparison operations, given that there are
other optimizations that can break address dependencies.

Suggested-by: Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhauser@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt