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Message-Id: <1385069489-7898-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:31:28 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: mingo@...nel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, darren@...art.com, fweisbec@...il.com, sbw@....edu, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: [PATCH v2 RFC 2/3] documentation: Add long atomic examples to memory-barriers.txt From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Although the atomic_long_t functions are quite useful, they are a bit obscure. This commit therefore adds the common ones alongside their atomic_t counterparts in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> --- Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 24 +++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 1c3c1d025f20..2170dcbedfaf 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1728,21 +1728,23 @@ explicit lock operations, described later). These include: xchg(); cmpxchg(); - atomic_xchg(); - atomic_cmpxchg(); - atomic_inc_return(); - atomic_dec_return(); - atomic_add_return(); - atomic_sub_return(); - atomic_inc_and_test(); - atomic_dec_and_test(); - atomic_sub_and_test(); - atomic_add_negative(); - atomic_add_unless(); /* when succeeds (returns 1) */ + atomic_xchg(); atomic_long_xchg(); + atomic_cmpxchg(); atomic_long_cmpxchg(); + atomic_inc_return(); atomic_long_inc_return(); + atomic_dec_return(); atomic_long_dec_return(); + atomic_add_return(); atomic_long_add_return(); + atomic_sub_return(); atomic_long_sub_return(); + atomic_inc_and_test(); atomic_long_inc_and_test(); + atomic_dec_and_test(); atomic_long_dec_and_test(); + atomic_sub_and_test(); atomic_long_sub_and_test(); + atomic_add_negative(); atomic_long_add_negative(); test_and_set_bit(); test_and_clear_bit(); test_and_change_bit(); + /* when succeeds (returns 1) */ + atomic_add_unless(); atomic_long_add_unless(); + These are used for such things as implementing LOCK-class and UNLOCK-class operations and adjusting reference counters towards object destruction, and as such the implicit memory barrier effects are necessary. -- 1.8.1.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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