Messages in this thread | | | From | Pranith Kumar <> | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:58:53 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 3.19 |
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Hello! > > This series contains a few documentation updates: > > 1. Records limitations of bitfields and small variables. > Also rules out pre-EV56 Alpha, which lack 8- and 16-bit > memory-reference instructions. Later Alpha CPUs are OK. > (The official Alpha maintainers have thus far been silent > on this patch.) > > 2. Document the new RCU self-test boot parameters, courtesy of > Pranith Kumar. > > 3. Records that short-circuit boolean evaluation does not necessarily > defend against control-dependency breakage by compiler optimizations. > > 4. Add mention of atomic_long_t to atomic_ops.txt. > > 5. Fix an example in memory-barriers.txt, courtesy of Pranith Kumar.
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
> > Thanx, Paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | 12 +++-- > b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 ++++ > b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ > 3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) >
-- Pranith
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