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authorSeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>2016-04-12 08:52:52 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-04-13 08:52:22 +0200
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Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: bobby.prani@gmail.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: dvhart@linux.intel.com Cc: edumazet@google.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: jiangshanlai@gmail.com Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460476375-27803-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 718ef2564fa0..1f1541862239 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ As a further example, consider this sequence of events:
CPU 1 CPU 2
=============== ===============
- { A == 1, B == 2, C = 3, P == &A, Q == &C }
+ { A == 1, B == 2, C == 3, P == &A, Q == &C }
B = 4; Q = P;
P = &B D = *Q;
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ following sequence of events:
CPU 1 CPU 2
=============== ===============
- { A == 1, B == 2, C = 3, P == &A, Q == &C }
+ { A == 1, B == 2, C == 3, P == &A, Q == &C }
B = 4;
<write barrier>
WRITE_ONCE(P, &B)
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ between the address load and the data load:
CPU 1 CPU 2
=============== ===============
- { A == 1, B == 2, C = 3, P == &A, Q == &C }
+ { A == 1, B == 2, C == 3, P == &A, Q == &C }
B = 4;
<write barrier>
WRITE_ONCE(P, &B);
@@ -3043,7 +3043,7 @@ The Alpha defines the Linux kernel's memory barrier model.
See the subsection on "Cache Coherency" above.
VIRTUAL MACHINE GUESTS
--------------------
+----------------------
Guests running within virtual machines might be affected by SMP effects even if
the guest itself is compiled without SMP support. This is an artifact of