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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 1073e019ef06..f7fa63508aba 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -121,22 +121,22 @@ For example, consider the following sequence of events: The set of accesses as seen by the memory system in the middle can be arranged in 24 different combinations: - 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 A=3, STORE B=4, y=LOAD A->3, x=LOAD B->4 + STORE A=3, STORE B=4, x=LOAD B->4, y=LOAD A->3 + STORE A=3, y=LOAD A->3, STORE B=4, x=LOAD B->4 + STORE A=3, y=LOAD A->3, x=LOAD B->2, STORE B=4 + STORE A=3, x=LOAD B->2, STORE B=4, y=LOAD A->3 + STORE A=3, x=LOAD B->2, y=LOAD A->3, STORE B=4 + STORE B=4, STORE A=3, y=LOAD A->3, x=LOAD B->4 STORE B=4, ... ... and can thus result in four different combinations of values: - x == 1, y == 2 - x == 1, y == 4 - x == 3, y == 2 - x == 3, y == 4 + x == 2, y == 1 + x == 2, y == 3 + x == 4, y == 1 + x == 4, y == 3 Furthermore, the stores committed by a CPU to the memory system may not be |