From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: memory-barriers.txt: Correct example for reorderings
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:39:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140828213945.GP5001@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJhHMCDxsukXe_HW55iJp0oCAWgrosxCRX1AfocS6QBzxaD0pw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am really confused by the ordering of the new lines, as I would have
> > expected the "x"s to be replaced with "y"s and vice versa. But the
> > ordering of the various combinations does not matter, and each line
> > looks OK.
>
> Since x = A was replaced by x = B and y = B was replaced by y = A, I
> just converted all x = load A to x = load B. Similarly for y. I think
> we can do either this or as you suggested replacing x's with y's.
Fair enough. The other thing that confused me was the "STORE B=4,"
showing up early in your replacement.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-28 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-25 13:08 [PATCH] doc: memory-barriers.txt: Correct example for reorderings Pranith Kumar
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2014-08-28 21:15 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-08-28 21:39 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2014-08-28 21:45 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-09-02 16:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-03 3:30 ` Pranith Kumar
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