linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 3.19

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Message-ID: <20141028215937.GA25095@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:59:37 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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	bobby.prani@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 3.19

Hello!

This series contains a few documentation updates:

1.	Records limitations of bitfields and small variables.
	Also rules out pre-EV56 Alpha, which lack 8- and 16-bit
	memory-reference instructions.  Later Alpha CPUs are OK.
	(The official Alpha maintainers have thus far been silent
	on this patch.)

2.	Document the new RCU self-test boot parameters, courtesy of
	Pranith Kumar.

3.	Records that short-circuit boolean evaluation does not necessarily
	defend against control-dependency breakage by compiler optimizations.

4.	Add mention of atomic_long_t to atomic_ops.txt.

5.	Fix an example in memory-barriers.txt, courtesy of Pranith Kumar.

							Thanx, Paul

------------------------------------------------------------------------

 b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt        |   12 +++--
 b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    9 ++++
 b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt   |   71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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