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authorSeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>2016-08-11 21:17:42 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-08-12 09:24:13 +0300
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locking/Documentation: Fix a typo of example result
An example result for data dependent write has a typo. This commit fixes the wrong typo. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470939463-31950-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ A data-dependency barrier must also order against dependent writes:
The data-dependency barrier must order the read into Q with the store
into *Q. This prohibits this outcome:
- (Q == B) && (B == 4)
+ (Q == &B) && (B == 4)
Please note that this pattern should be rare. After all, the whole point
of dependency ordering is to -prevent- writes to the data structure, along