linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Clarify cmpxchg()

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Message-ID: <20191015074522.GB2311@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:45:22 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, 1vier1@....de,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Clarify cmpxchg()

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 07:49:56PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> From 61c85a56994e32ea393af9debef4cccd9cd24abd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:33:26 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Update Documentation for _{acquire|release|relaxed}()
> 
> When adding the _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic
> operations, it was forgotten to update Documentation/memory_barrier.txt:
> 
> smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() is now indended for all RMW operations

"intended"

Otherwise it looks fine, thanks!