From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:50:36 +0000 (-0800) Subject: documentation: Transitivity is not cumulativity X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f36fe1e70b5477d4e42df8ea97278e9698dddbbf;p=linux-beck.git documentation: Transitivity is not cumulativity The "transitivity" section mentions cumulativity in a potentially confusing way. Contrary to the current wording, cumulativity is not transitivity, but rather a hardware discipline that can be used to implement transitivity on ARM and PowerPC CPUs. This commit therefore deletes the mention of cumulativity. Reported-by: Luc Maranget Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 57e4a4b053c5..8367d393cba2 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ TRANSITIVITY Transitivity is a deeply intuitive notion about ordering that is not always provided by real computer systems. The following example -demonstrates transitivity (also called "cumulativity"): +demonstrates transitivity: CPU 1 CPU 2 CPU 3 ======================= ======================= =======================