[PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 08/12] memory-barriers: Fix description of data dependency barriers

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Feb 20 2018 - 18:27:22 EST


From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx>

In the description of data dependency barriers the words 'before' is
used erroneously. Since such barrier order dependent loads one after
the other. So substitute 'before' with 'after'.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 74ad222d11ed..0d83333b84a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ Memory barriers come in four basic varieties:
where two loads are performed such that the second depends on the result
of the first (eg: the first load retrieves the address to which the second
load will be directed), a data dependency barrier would be required to
- make sure that the target of the second load is updated before the address
+ make sure that the target of the second load is updated after the address
obtained by the first load is accessed.

A data dependency barrier is a partial ordering on interdependent loads
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2.5.2