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    SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 3.19
    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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