From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
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"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/4] Documentation: Fix memory-barriers.txt example
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:04:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351613076-22022-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121030160350.GA21837@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit fixes a broken example of overlapping stores in the
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt file.
Reported-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
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};
=========================
--
1.7.8
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-30 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-30 16:03 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/4] Documentation updates for 3.8 Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-30 16:04 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-10-30 16:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/4] rcu: Correct the name of a reference in list of RCU papers Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-30 16:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/4] RCU: Update docs to include kfree_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-30 16:04 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/4] rcu: Document alternative RCU/reference-count algorithms Paul E. McKenney
2012-10-30 16:21 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-10-30 17:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
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