On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, Andi Kleen wrote: > The patch is ok. Lock critical region isn't a special term.
Thanks, Andi! Below the ChangeLog and patch I committed. Gerald 2017-02-05 Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> * doc/extend.texi (x86 specific memory model extensions for transactional memory): Simplify a phrase. Index: doc/extend.texi =================================================================== --- doc/extend.texi (revision 245188) +++ doc/extend.texi (working copy) @@ -10103,7 +10103,7 @@ @section x86-Specific Memory Model Extensions for Transactional Memory The x86 architecture supports additional memory ordering flags -to mark lock critical sections for hardware lock elision. +to mark critical sections for hardware lock elision. These must be specified in addition to an existing memory order to atomic intrinsics.