From 8b9e771555745a029557a0a481e760fb84376a35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SeongJae Park Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:17:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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 --- 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 19c8eb6f246e..ba818ecce6f9 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 -- 2.20.1