>From e29e397c3eab7359cdd866d5a59a0af56dfd22c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:33:50 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] whymb: Convert to 'description' (part 5)
This list is also a candidate for conversion to "description".
Also adjust conjugation of verbs that follow labels.
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
---
appendix/whymb/whymemorybarriers.tex | 19 ++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/appendix/whymb/whymemorybarriers.tex b/appendix/whymb/whymemorybarriers.tex
index d6dd15f..6c6b28a 100644
--- a/appendix/whymb/whymemorybarriers.tex
+++ b/appendix/whymb/whymemorybarriers.tex
@@ -2221,22 +2221,23 @@ worry about memory barriers.
SPARC has a very flexible memory-barrier instruction~\cite{SPARC94}
that permits fine-grained control of ordering:
-\begin{itemize}
-\item {\tt StoreStore}: order preceding stores before subsequent stores.
+\begin{description}
+\item [\tco{StoreStore}] orders preceding stores before subsequent stores.
(This option is used by the Linux \co{smp_wmb()} primitive.)
-\item {\tt LoadStore}: order preceding loads before subsequent stores.
-\item {\tt StoreLoad}: order preceding stores before subsequent loads.
-\item {\tt LoadLoad}: order preceding loads before subsequent loads.
+\item [\tco{LoadStore}] orders preceding loads before subsequent stores.
+\item [\tco{StoreLoad}] orders preceding stores before subsequent loads.
+\item [\tco{LoadLoad}] orders preceding loads before subsequent loads.
(This option is used by the Linux \co{smp_rmb()} primitive.)
-\item {\tt Sync}: fully complete all preceding operations before starting
+\item [\tco{Sync}] fully completes all preceding operations before starting
any subsequent operations.
-\item {\tt MemIssue}: complete preceding memory operations before subsequent
+\item [\tco{MemIssue}] completes preceding memory operations before subsequent
memory operations, important for some instances of memory-mapped
I/O.
-\item {\tt Lookaside}: same as MemIssue, but only applies to preceding stores
+\item [\tco{Lookaside}] does the same as MemIssue,
+ but only applies to preceding stores
and subsequent loads, and even then only for stores and loads that
access the same memory location.
-\end{itemize}
+\end{description}
The Linux \co{smp_mb()} primitive uses the first four options together,
as in
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2.7.4
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