linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] docs: ftrace: Fix small notation mistake

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Message-ID: <9624d6fb140cf4a6752f37590cdf670eff68a18e.1577209218.git.frank@generalsoftwareinc.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:58:00 -0500
From:   "Frank A. Cancio Bello" <frank@...eralsoftwareinc.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     joel@...lfernandes.org, saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org,
        nachukannan@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] docs: ftrace: Fix small notation mistake

The use of iff ("if and only if") notation is not accurate in this case.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello <frank@...eralsoftwareinc.com>
---
 Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.txt
index ff747b6fa39b..2d53c6f25b91 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ commit_page - a pointer to the page with the last finished non-nested write.
 
 cmpxchg - hardware-assisted atomic transaction that performs the following:
 
-   A = B iff previous A == C
+   A = B if previous A == C
 
    R = cmpxchg(A, C, B) is saying that we replace A with B if and only if
       current A is equal to C, and we put the old (current) A into R
-- 
2.17.1