linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: atomic_ops: atomic_set is a write (not read) operation

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Date:   Wed, 6 Jun 2018 01:07:56 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: atomic_ops: atomic_set is a write (not read)
 operation

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 09:43:23PM +0200, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> Describe it as such.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>

I have queued this, but if someone else would prefer to take it:

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

> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
> index 2e7165f86f55..724583453e1f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ updated by one CPU, local_t is probably more appropriate. Please see
>  local_t.
> 
>  The first operations to implement for atomic_t's are the initializers and
> -plain reads. ::
> +plain writes. ::
> 
>  	#define ATOMIC_INIT(i)		{ (i) }
>  	#define atomic_set(v, i)	((v)->counter = (i))
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>