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authorSeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>2016-02-22 08:28:29 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-03-14 15:52:19 -0700
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documentation: Clarify compiler store-fusion example
The compiler store-fusion example in memory-barriers.txt uses a C comment to represent arbitrary code that does not update a given variable. Unfortunately, someone could reasonably interpret the comment as instead referring to the following line of code. This commit therefore replaces the comment with a string that more clearly represents the arbitrary code. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> 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 8367d393cba2..3729cbe60e41 100644
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@@ -1550,7 +1550,7 @@ of optimizations:
the following:
a = 0;
- /* Code that does not store to variable a. */
+ ... Code that does not store to variable a ...
a = 0;
The compiler sees that the value of variable 'a' is already zero, so
@@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ of optimizations:
wrong guess:
WRITE_ONCE(a, 0);
- /* Code that does not store to variable a. */
+ ... Code that does not store to variable a ...
WRITE_ONCE(a, 0);
(*) The compiler is within its rights to reorder memory accesses unless