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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2006-05-24 09:22:21 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2006-05-24 09:22:21 +0100
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h include/asm-sparc/unistd.h include/asm-sparc64/unistd.h Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 92f0056d928..c61d8b876fd 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ conflict on any particular lock.
LOCKS VS MEMORY ACCESSES
------------------------
-Consider the following: the system has a pair of spinlocks (N) and (Q), and
+Consider the following: the system has a pair of spinlocks (M) and (Q), and
three CPUs; then should the following sequence of events occur:
CPU 1 CPU 2
@@ -1678,7 +1678,7 @@ CPU's caches by some other cache event:
smp_wmb();
<A:modify v=2> <C:busy>
<C:queue v=2>
- p = &b; q = p;
+ p = &v; q = p;
<D:request p>
<B:modify p=&v> <D:commit p=&v>
<D:read p>