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| author | Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> | 2018-07-16 20:05:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-07-17 09:30:31 +0200 |
| commit | c4081a46f38fd9917e0beb58de72391f27138d57 (patch) | |
| tree | ea2738667adc535abc6a3f9795646981c6a70ae1 /Documentation/core-api | |
| parent | tools/memory-model: Make scripts executable (diff) | |
| download | linux-c4081a46f38fd9917e0beb58de72391f27138d57.tar.xz linux-c4081a46f38fd9917e0beb58de72391f27138d57.zip | |
locking/atomics/Documentation: Describe atomic_set() as a write operation
The atomic_set() and ATOMIC_INIT() operations are writes, so this
commit changes their description from "reads" to "writes".
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-8-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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)) |