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Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] Doc/memory-barriers: Fix a typo of example result

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On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:10:57AM +0900, SeongJae Park wrote:
> An example result for data dependent write has a typo.  This commit
> fixes the wrong typo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>

Good catch!  Queued, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  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 19c8eb6..ba818ec 100644
> --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> @@ -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
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 

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[PATCH v5 1/2] Doc/memory-barriers: Fix a typo of example result SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 03:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] Doc/memory-barriers: Fix a typo of example result "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-07-21 16:20 +0200

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