Commit f36fe1e7 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

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: default avatarLuc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent 37ef0341
......@@ -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
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