From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@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 <nik...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@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};
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1.7.8
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