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Documentation/atomic_t: Emphasize that failed atomic operations give no ordering
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:08:32 +0000 (06:08 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Mon, 6 May 2024 21:29:04 +0000 (14:29 -0700)
commitd372e20433cbc0b0e3e59c89ccb6618501fcf6af
treeca44e27b0b24f40a5fb138fe00d84ec38da707c8
parent293f5bc2717b2178978c0d9ce9584da552279c3b
Documentation/atomic_t: Emphasize that failed atomic operations give no ordering

The ORDERING section of Documentation/atomic_t.txt can easily be read as
saying that conditional atomic RMW operations that fail are ordered when
those operations have the _acquire() or _release() suffixes.  This is
not the case, therefore update this section to make it clear that failed
conditional atomic RMW operations provide no ordering.

Reported-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Documentation/atomic_t.txt