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

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Message-Id: <20170623203139.7258-1-palmer@dabbelt.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:31:39 -0700
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
To:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: atomic_ops.txt is core-api/atomic_ops.rst

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>
---
 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