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--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ conflict on any particular lock.
LOCKS VS MEMORY ACCESSES
------------------------
-Consider the following: the system has a pair of spinlocks (N) and (Q), and
+Consider the following: the system has a pair of spinlocks (M) and (Q), and
three CPUs; then should the following sequence of events occur:
CPU 1 CPU 2
@@ -1678,7 +1678,7 @@ CPU's caches by some other cache event:
smp_wmb();
<A:modify v=2> <C:busy>
<C:queue v=2>
- p = &b; q = p;
+ p = &v; q = p;
<D:request p>
<B:modify p=&v> <D:commit p=&v>
<D:read p>
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