linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] Doc/memory-barriers: Fix a typo of example result

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Message-Id: <20160721141153.GQ7094@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:11:53 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>
Cc:	byungchul.park@....com, corbet@....net, mingo@...nel.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, minchan@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] Doc/memory-barriers: Fix a typo of example result

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:10:57AM +0900, SeongJae Park wrote:
> An example result for data dependent write has a typo.  This commit
> fixes the wrong typo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>

Good catch!  Queued, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  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 19c8eb6..ba818ec 100644
> --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> @@ -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
> -- 
> 1.9.1
>