linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] tools/memory-model/Documentation: Fix typos in explanation.txt

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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:     LKMM Maintainers -- Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
cc:     Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] tools/memory-model/Documentation: Fix typos in
 explanation.txt

This patch fixes a few minor typos and improves word usage in a few
places in the Linux Kernel Memory Model's explanation.txt file.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

---

 tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: usb-devel/tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt
===================================================================
--- usb-devel.orig/tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt
+++ usb-devel/tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ goes like this:
 	P0 stores 1 to buf before storing 1 to flag, since it executes
 	its instructions in order.
 
-	Since an instruction (in this case, P1's store to flag) cannot
+	Since an instruction (in this case, P0's store to flag) cannot
 	execute before itself, the specified outcome is impossible.
 
 However, real computer hardware almost never follows the Sequential
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ example:
 
 The object code might call f(5) either before or after g(6); the
 memory model cannot assume there is a fixed program order relation
-between them.  (In fact, if the functions are inlined then the
+between them.  (In fact, if the function calls are inlined then the
 compiler might even interleave their object code.)
 
 
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ different CPUs (external reads-from, or
 
 For our purposes, a memory location's initial value is treated as
 though it had been written there by an imaginary initial store that
-executes on a separate CPU before the program runs.
+executes on a separate CPU before the main program runs.
 
 Usage of the rf relation implicitly assumes that loads will always
 read from a single store.  It doesn't apply properly in the presence
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ atomic update.  This is what the LKMM's
 THE PRESERVED PROGRAM ORDER RELATION: ppo
 -----------------------------------------
 
-There are many situations where a CPU is obligated to execute two
+There are many situations where a CPU is obliged to execute two
 instructions in program order.  We amalgamate them into the ppo (for
 "preserved program order") relation, which links the po-earlier
 instruction to the po-later instruction and is thus a sub-relation of
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ and there are events X, Y and a read-sid
 
 	2. X comes "before" Y in some sense (including rfe, co and fr);
 
-	2. Y is po-before Z;
+	3. Y is po-before Z;
 
 	4. Z is the rcu_read_unlock() event marking the end of C;