linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/14] documentation: Transitivity is not cumulativity

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Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:00:44 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
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	bobby.prani@...il.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/14] documentation: Transitivity is not cumulativity

The "transitivity" section mentions cumulativity in a potentially
confusing way.  Contrary to the current wording, cumulativity is
not transitivity, but rather a hardware discipline that can be used
to implement transitivity on ARM and PowerPC CPUs.  This commit
therefore deletes the mention of cumulativity.

Reported-by: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 57e4a4b053c5..8367d393cba2 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ TRANSITIVITY
 
 Transitivity is a deeply intuitive notion about ordering that is not
 always provided by real computer systems.  The following example
-demonstrates transitivity (also called "cumulativity"):
+demonstrates transitivity:
 
 	CPU 1			CPU 2			CPU 3
 	=======================	=======================	=======================
-- 
2.5.2