From f191eec58803e1e16c3421638cdcc9195c425851 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 10:28:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix memory-barriers.txt example This commit fixes a broken example of overlapping stores in the Documentation/memory-barriers.txt file. Reported-by: Nikunj A Dadhania Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 2759f7c188f..3c4e1b3b80a 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}; =========================