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Currently architectures can override __atomic_op_*() to define the barriers used before/after a relaxed atomic when used to build acquire/release/fence variants. This has the unfortunate property of requiring the architecture to define the full wrapper for the atomics, rather than just the barriers they care about, and gets in the way of generating atomics which can be easily read. Instead, this patch has architectures define an optional set of barriers: * __atomic_acquire_fence() * __atomic_release_fence() * __atomic_pre_full_fence() * __atomic_post_full_fence() ... which <linux/atomic.h> uses to build the wrappers. It would be nice if we could undef these, along with the __atomic_op_*() wrappers, but that would break the cmpxchg() wrappers, which are written in preprocessor. Undefs would have been nice, but alas. There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: andy.shevchenko@gmail.com Cc: arnd@arndb.de Cc: aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: dvyukov@google.com Cc: glider@google.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: peter@hurleysoftware.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716113017.3909-7-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.