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From: Yao Dongdong <yaodongdong@huawei.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: match table to its comment followed
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:51:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5417FA0F.1030403@huawei.com> (raw)

The table shows CPU2's sequence of events as "x = B; y = A;", but its comment followed
described as "x = A; y = B;".

Signed-off-by: Yao Dongdong <yaodongdong@huawei.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 a4de88f..9a46bbe 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ For example, consider the following sequence of events:
        CPU 1           CPU 2
        =============== ===============
        { A == 1; B == 2 }
-       A = 3;          x = B;
-       B = 4;          y = A;
+       A = 3;          x = A;
+       B = 4;          y = B;

 The set of accesses as seen by the memory system in the middle can be arranged
 in 24 different combinations:
--
1.8.0.1


             reply	other threads:[~2014-09-16  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16  8:51 Yao Dongdong [this message]
2014-09-16  9:24 ` [PATCH] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: match table to its comment followed Jianyu Zhan
2014-09-16 10:05   ` Yao Dongdong

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