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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-02-15 17:50:36 -0500
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-03-14 18:52:19 -0400
commitf36fe1e70b5477d4e42df8ea97278e9698dddbbf (patch)
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documentation: Transitivity is not cumulativity
The "transitivity" section mentions cumulativity in a potentially confusing way. Contrary to the current wording, cumulativity is not transitivity, but rather a hardware discipline that can be used to implement transitivity on ARM and PowerPC CPUs. This commit therefore deletes the mention of cumulativity. Reported-by: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ TRANSITIVITY
1270 1270
1271Transitivity is a deeply intuitive notion about ordering that is not 1271Transitivity is a deeply intuitive notion about ordering that is not
1272always provided by real computer systems. The following example 1272always provided by real computer systems. The following example
1273demonstrates transitivity (also called "cumulativity"): 1273demonstrates transitivity:
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1275 CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3 1275 CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3
1276 ======================= ======================= ======================= 1276 ======================= ======================= =======================