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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-02-15 14:50:36 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-03-14 15:52:19 -0700
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documentation: Transitivity is not cumulativity
The "transitivity" section mentions cumulativity in a potentially confusing way. Contrary to the current wording, cumulativity is not transitivity, but rather a hardware discipline that can be used to implement transitivity on ARM and PowerPC CPUs. This commit therefore deletes the mention of cumulativity. Reported-by: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 57e4a4b053c5..8367d393cba2 100644
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@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ TRANSITIVITY
Transitivity is a deeply intuitive notion about ordering that is not
always provided by real computer systems. The following example
-demonstrates transitivity (also called "cumulativity"):
+demonstrates transitivity:
CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3
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