locking/Documentation: Fix a typo of example result
authorSeongJae Park <[email protected]>
Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:17:42 +0000 (11:17 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>
Fri, 12 Aug 2016 06:24:13 +0000 (08:24 +0200)
An example result for data dependent write has a typo.  This commit
fixes the wrong typo.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt

index 19c8eb6f246e18ecab50812af6d14bab85aa98da..ba818ecce6f99508f1136a0eb0d3ee07eee74715 100644 (file)
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ A data-dependency barrier must also order against dependent writes:
 The data-dependency barrier must order the read into Q with the store
 into *Q.  This prohibits this outcome:
 
-       (Q == B) && (B == 4)
+       (Q == &B) && (B == 4)
 
 Please note that this pattern should be rare.  After all, the whole point
 of dependency ordering is to -prevent- writes to the data structure, along