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| author | SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> | 2018-05-14 15:55:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-05-15 08:11:14 +0200 |
| commit | fc7bdc90249b216051d06496577c306327f2e3f5 (patch) | |
| tree | bedf76db204898d18d99b0e4eef7a7143821eaa4 /Documentation/core-api | |
| parent | e89641dd038aa8affbbdc84b6633ccce5d2a2240 (diff) | |
locking/Documentation: Fix incorrect example code
- Remove a stale line of code
- Fix the condition of the READ_ONCE() example
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1526338533-6044-7-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst index fce929144ccd..4ea4af71e68a 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst @@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ If the compiler can prove that do_something() does not store to the variable a, then the compiler is within its rights transforming this to the following:: - tmp = a; if (a > 0) for (;;) do_something(); @@ -119,7 +118,7 @@ the following:: If you don't want the compiler to do this (and you probably don't), then you should use something like the following:: - while (READ_ONCE(a) < 0) + while (READ_ONCE(a) > 0) do_something(); Alternatively, you could place a barrier() call in the loop. |