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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt index 3f5e0b09bed..43ffff1b561 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ arrived in memory (this becomes more likely with devices behind PCI-PCI bridges). In order to ensure that all the data has arrived in memory, the interrupt handler must read a register on the device which raised the interrupt. PCI transaction ordering rules require that all the data -arrives in memory before the value can be returned from the register. +arrive in memory before the value may be returned from the register. Using MSIs avoids this problem as the interrupt-generating write cannot pass the data writes, so by the time the interrupt is raised, the driver knows that all the data has arrived in memory. |