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[PATCH memory-barriers.txt 3/4] Doc/memory-barriers: Fix a typo of example result

From: Paul E. McKenney <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-11 22:28:38
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Subsystem: documentation, linux kernel memory consistency model (lkmm), the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Alan Stern, Andrea Parri, Will Deacon, Peter Zijlstra, Boqun Feng, Nicholas Piggin, David Howells, Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, "Paul E. McKenney", Linus Torvalds

From: SeongJae Park <redacted>

An example result for data dependent write has a typo.  This commit
fixes the wrong typo.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <redacted>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 19c8eb6f246e..ba818ecce6f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ A data-dependency barrier must also order against dependent writes:
 The data-dependency barrier must order the read into Q with the store
 into *Q.  This prohibits this outcome:
 
-	(Q == B) && (B == 4)
+	(Q == &B) && (B == 4)
 
 Please note that this pattern should be rare.  After all, the whole point
 of dependency ordering is to -prevent- writes to the data structure, along
-- 
2.5.2
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