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@@ -14,7 +14,11 @@ DISCLAIMER
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This document is not a specification; it is intentionally (for the sake of
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brevity) and unintentionally (due to being human) incomplete. This document is
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meant as a guide to using the various memory barriers provided by Linux, but
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-in case of any doubt (and there are many) please ask.
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+in case of any doubt (and there are many) please ask. Some doubts may be
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+resolved by referring to the formal memory consistency model and related
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+documentation at tools/memory-model/. Nevertheless, even this memory
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+model should be viewed as the collective opinion of its maintainers rather
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+than as an infallible oracle.
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To repeat, this document is not a specification of what Linux expects from
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hardware.
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