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Commit 39323c64 authored by Manfred Spraul's avatar Manfred Spraul Committed by Linus Torvalds
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smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic(): update Documentation

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 intended for all RMW operations
that do not imply a memory barrier.

1)
	smp_mb__before_atomic();
	atomic_add();

2)
	smp_mb__before_atomic();
	atomic_xchg_relaxed();

3)
	smp_mb__before_atomic();
	atomic_fetch_add_relaxed();

Invalid would be:
	smp_mb__before_atomic();
	atomic_set();

In addition, the patch splits the long sentence into multiple shorter
sentences.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191020123305.14715-2-manfred@colorfullife.com


Fixes: 654672d4 ("locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations")
Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <1vier1@web.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 92917998
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