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[tip:locking/core] locking/Documentation: Fix a typo of example result

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Commit-ID:  8b9e771555745a029557a0a481e760fb84376a35
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/8b9e771555745a029557a0a481e760fb84376a35
Author:     SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:17:42 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:24:13 +0200

locking/Documentation: Fix a typo of example result

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>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470939463-31950-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 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

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[PATCH memory-barriers.txt 1/4] memory-barriers.txt: Maintain consistent blank line "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-12 00:30 +0200
  [PATCH memory-barriers.txt 2/4] memory-barriers.txt: Fix wrong section reference "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-12 00:30 +0200
    [tip:locking/core] locking/Documentation: Fix wrong section  reference tip-bot for SeongJae Park <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-08-12 10:30 +0200
  [PATCH memory-barriers.txt 3/4] Doc/memory-barriers: Fix a typo of example result "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-12 00:30 +0200
    [tip:locking/core] locking/Documentation: Fix a typo of example  result tip-bot for SeongJae Park <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-08-12 10:30 +0200
  [tip:locking/core] locking/Documentation: Maintain consistent blank  line tip-bot for SeongJae Park <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-08-12 10:30 +0200

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