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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-10-03 13:28:30 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-10-23 17:44:46 -0400
commitf191eec58803e1e16c3421638cdcc9195c425851 (patch)
treeaa3e8426dd5e1274e38356257fe619f5894e3fbc /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
parent6f0c0580b70c89094b3422ba81118c7b959c7556 (diff)
Documentation: Fix memory-barriers.txt example
This commit fixes a broken example of overlapping stores in the Documentation/memory-barriers.txt file. Reported-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
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@@ -251,12 +251,13 @@ And there are a number of things that _must_ or _must_not_ be assumed:
251 251
252 And for: 252 And for:
253 253
254 *A = X; Y = *A; 254 *A = X; *(A + 4) = Y;
255 255
256 we may get either of: 256 we may get any of:
257 257
258 STORE *A = X; Y = LOAD *A; 258 STORE *A = X; STORE *(A + 4) = Y;
259 STORE *A = Y = X; 259 STORE *(A + 4) = Y; STORE *A = X;
260 STORE {*A, *(A + 4) } = {X, Y};
260 261
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