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From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: fix ACCESS_ONCE thinko
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:04:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1448316257-18246-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com> (raw)

In commit 2ecf810121c7 ("Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Add
needed ACCESS_ONCE() calls to memory-barriers.txt") the statement
"Q = P" was converted to "ACCESS_ONCE(Q) = P".  This should have
been "Q = ACCESS_ONCE(P)".  It later became "WRITE_ONCE(Q, P)".
This doesn't match the following text, which is "Q = LOAD P".
Change the statement to be "Q = READ_ONCE(P)".

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index aef9487303d0..85304ebd187c 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ There are some minimal guarantees that may be expected of a CPU:
  (*) On any given CPU, dependent memory accesses will be issued in order, with
      respect to itself.  This means that for:
 
-	WRITE_ONCE(Q, P); smp_read_barrier_depends(); D = READ_ONCE(*Q);
+	Q = READ_ONCE(P); smp_read_barrier_depends(); D = READ_ONCE(*Q);
 
      the CPU will issue the following memory operations:
 
@@ -202,9 +202,9 @@ There are some minimal guarantees that may be expected of a CPU:
 
      and always in that order.  On most systems, smp_read_barrier_depends()
      does nothing, but it is required for DEC Alpha.  The READ_ONCE()
-     and WRITE_ONCE() are required to prevent compiler mischief.  Please
-     note that you should normally use something like rcu_dereference()
-     instead of open-coding smp_read_barrier_depends().
+     is required to prevent compiler mischief.  Please note that you
+     should normally use something like rcu_dereference() instead of
+     open-coding smp_read_barrier_depends().
 
  (*) Overlapping loads and stores within a particular CPU will appear to be
      ordered within that CPU.  This means that for:
-- 
2.1.2


             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-23 22:04 UTC|newest]

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2015-11-23 22:04 Chris Metcalf [this message]
2015-11-23 23:07 ` Paul E. McKenney

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