Re: [PATCH] DOCUMENTATION: Fixed typo in an example in memory-barriers.txt

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Sat Aug 23 2014 - 16:17:27 EST


On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:01:01AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 08/22/14 23:05, Ganesh Rapolu wrote:
> > In the first example in the memory-barriers.txt file, CPU 2 is assigned to
> > run (x = B; y = A;). However, the rest of the example proceeds as if CPU 2 had been
> > running (x = A; y = B;) as shown by the descriptions of the possible executions:
> >
> > STORE A=3, STORE B=4, x=LOAD A->3, y=LOAD B->4
> > STORE A=3, STORE B=4, y=LOAD B->4, x=LOAD A->3
> > STORE A=3, x=LOAD A->3, STORE B=4, y=LOAD B->4
> > STORE A=3, x=LOAD A->3, y=LOAD B->2, STORE B=4
> > STORE A=3, y=LOAD B->2, STORE B=4, x=LOAD A->3
> > STORE A=3, y=LOAD B->2, x=LOAD A->3, STORE B=4
> > STORE B=4, STORE A=3, x=LOAD A->3, y=LOAD B->4
> > STORE B=4, ...
> > ...
> >
> > The change was merely to make the inital evironment consistent with what happens in the
> > rest of the example.

so change the rest of the example
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