From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/memory-barriers: fix wrong comment in example
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:16:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30870.1456139799@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1602222006200.16296@hxeon>
SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> wrote:
> From f7b5677790771599f418f1d95536935be971ae86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:26:18 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/memory-barriers: polish compiler store omit
> example
>
> Comments of examples about compiler store omit in memory-barriers.txt is
> about code that could be possible at that point. However, someone could
> interpret the comment as an explanation about below line. This commit
> exploits the intent more explicitly by changing the comment to be seems
> like a possible code rather than explanation about below line.
>
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> index 904ee42..dc66351 100644
> --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> @@ -1459,7 +1459,7 @@ of optimizations:
> the following:
>
> a = 0;
> - /* Code that does not store to variable a. */
> + ... Code that does not store to variable a ...
> a = 0;
>
> The compiler sees that the value of variable 'a' is already zero, so
> @@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ of optimizations:
> wrong guess:
>
> WRITE_ONCE(a, 0);
> - /* Code that does not store to variable a. */
> + ... Code that does not store to variable a ...
> WRITE_ONCE(a, 0);
>
> (*) The compiler is within its rights to reorder memory accesses unless
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-20 6:01 [PATCH] Documentation/memory-barriers: fix wrong comment in example SeongJae Park
2016-02-20 19:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-20 22:50 ` SeongJae Park
2016-02-21 5:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-21 6:33 ` SeongJae Park
2016-02-22 10:01 ` David Howells
2016-02-22 11:08 ` SeongJae Park
2016-02-22 11:16 ` David Howells [this message]
2016-02-22 16:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-02-22 21:45 ` SeongJae Park
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