The "transitivity" section mentions cumulativity in a potentially confusing way. Contrary to the current wording, cumulativity is not transitivity, but rather a hardware discipline that can be used to implement transitivity on ARM and PowerPC CPUs. This commit therefore deletes the mention of cumulativity.
Reported-by: Luc Maranget <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> --- Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 57e4a4b053c5..8367d393cba2 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ TRANSITIVITY Transitivity is a deeply intuitive notion about ordering that is not always provided by real computer systems. The following example -demonstrates transitivity (also called "cumulativity"): +demonstrates transitivity: CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3 ======================= ======================= ======================= -- 2.5.2
