linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic

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Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:45:29 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
Cc:     corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 01:31:39PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> I was reading the memory barries documentation in order to make sure the
> RISC-V barries were correct, and I found a broken link to the atomic
> operations documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

Good catch!

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> index 732f10ea382e..f1c9eaa45a57 100644
> --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> @@ -498,11 +498,11 @@ And a couple of implicit varieties:
>       This means that ACQUIRE acts as a minimal "acquire" operation and
>       RELEASE acts as a minimal "release" operation.
> 
> -A subset of the atomic operations described in atomic_ops.txt have ACQUIRE
> -and RELEASE variants in addition to fully-ordered and relaxed (no barrier
> -semantics) definitions.  For compound atomics performing both a load and a
> -store, ACQUIRE semantics apply only to the load and RELEASE semantics apply
> -only to the store portion of the operation.
> +A subset of the atomic operations described in core-api/atomic_ops.rst have
> +ACQUIRE and RELEASE variants in addition to fully-ordered and relaxed (no
> +barrier semantics) definitions.  For compound atomics performing both a load
> +and a store, ACQUIRE semantics apply only to the load and RELEASE semantics
> +apply only to the store portion of the operation.
> 
>  Memory barriers are only required where there's a possibility of interaction
>  between two CPUs or between a CPU and a device.  If it can be guaranteed that
> -- 
> 2.13.0
>