locking/Documentation: Fix incorrect example code
authorSeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Mon, 14 May 2018 22:55:32 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 15 May 2018 06:11:14 +0000 (08:11 +0200)
 - Remove a stale line of code
 - Fix the condition of the READ_ONCE() example

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1526338533-6044-7-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst

index fce9291..4ea4af7 100644 (file)
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ If the compiler can prove that do_something() does not store to the
 variable a, then the compiler is within its rights transforming this to
 the following::
 
-       tmp = a;
        if (a > 0)
                for (;;)
                        do_something();
@@ -119,7 +118,7 @@ the following::
 If you don't want the compiler to do this (and you probably don't), then
 you should use something like the following::
 
-       while (READ_ONCE(a) < 0)
+       while (READ_ONCE(a) > 0)
                do_something();
 
 Alternatively, you could place a barrier() call in the loop.