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documentation: Add alternative release-acquire outcome

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The memory-barriers.txt discussion of local transitivity and
release-acquire chains leaves out discussion of the outcome of
the read from "u".  This commit therefore adds an outcome showing
that you can get a "1" from this read even if the release-acquire
pairs don't line up.

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney 2016-01-25 22:12:34 -08:00
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@ -1372,6 +1372,10 @@ is possible:
r0 == 0 && r1 == 1 && r2 == 1 && r3 == 0 && r4 == 0
As an aside, the following outcome is also possible:
r0 == 0 && r1 == 1 && r2 == 1 && r3 == 0 && r4 == 0 && r5 == 1
Although cpu0(), cpu1(), and cpu2() will see their respective reads and
writes in order, CPUs not involved in the release-acquire chain might
well disagree on the order. This disagreement stems from the fact that