[PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/4] Documentation: Fix memory-barriers.txt example

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Oct 30 2012 - 12:05:36 EST


From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This commit fixes a broken example of overlapping stores in the
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt file.

Reported-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 9 +++++----
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 2759f7c..3c4e1b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -251,12 +251,13 @@ And there are a number of things that _must_ or _must_not_ be assumed:

And for:

- *A = X; Y = *A;
+ *A = X; *(A + 4) = Y;

- we may get either of:
+ we may get any of:

- STORE *A = X; Y = LOAD *A;
- STORE *A = Y = X;
+ STORE *A = X; STORE *(A + 4) = Y;
+ STORE *(A + 4) = Y; STORE *A = X;
+ STORE {*A, *(A + 4) } = {X, Y};


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