Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:39:45 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] doc: memory-barriers.txt: Correct example for reorderings |
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 05:15:50PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Paul E. McKenney > <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > I am really confused by the ordering of the new lines, as I would have > > expected the "x"s to be replaced with "y"s and vice versa. But the > > ordering of the various combinations does not matter, and each line > > looks OK. > > Since x = A was replaced by x = B and y = B was replaced by y = A, I > just converted all x = load A to x = load B. Similarly for y. I think > we can do either this or as you suggested replacing x's with y's.
Fair enough. The other thing that confused me was the "STORE B=4," showing up early in your replacement.
Thanx, Paul
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