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Subject[tip: core/rcu] doc: Fix statement of RCU's memory-ordering requirements
The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 18389c4570211e10e94f4a2ce907d01397abc335
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/18389c4570211e10e94f4a2ce907d01397abc335
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:30:15 -07:00
Committer: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
CommitterDate: Mon, 10 May 2021 15:39:19 -07:00

doc: Fix statement of RCU's memory-ordering requirements

The sentence defining the relationship of accesses before a grace
period to read-side accesses following that same grace period was
missing a small word: "not". This commit therefore adds it.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
index a648b42..3f6ce41 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Any code that happens after the end of a given RCU grace period is guaranteed
to see the effects of all accesses prior to the beginning of that grace
period that are within RCU read-side critical sections.
Similarly, any code that happens before the beginning of a given RCU grace
-period is guaranteed to see the effects of all accesses following the end
+period is guaranteed to not see the effects of all accesses following the end
of that grace period that are within RCU read-side critical sections.

Note well that RCU-sched read-side critical sections include any region
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