lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2019]   [Jan]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] sched: convert sighand_struct.count to refcount_t
Hi Elena,

[...]

> **Important note for maintainers:
>
> Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c
> have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic
> counterparts.
> The full comparison can be seen in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/15/57 and it is hopefully soon
> in state to be merged to the documentation tree.

Just a remark to point out that that document got merged, even though
in a different location/format: c.f.,

b6e859f6cdd1 ("docs: refcount_t documentation")

Andrea

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2019-01-18 13:56    [W:0.204 / U:1.156 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site