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| author | Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> | 2017-12-05 12:46:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2017-12-11 14:37:11 -0700 |
| commit | b6e859f6cdd1686c021dcb3e18591d0b28ce8867 (patch) | |
| tree | 4c2d00ec6d68a39f6fcf39242acf9515e66754f6 /include/linux/refcount.h | |
| parent | 3ece7805105ef5967fd88547ac958c6d59329e9c (diff) | |
docs: refcount_t documentation
Some functions from refcount_t API provide different
memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts.
This adds a document outlining these differences (
Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as
some other minor improvements.
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/refcount.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/refcount.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/refcount.h b/include/linux/refcount.h index e8286585e149..4193c41e383a 100644 --- a/include/linux/refcount.h +++ b/include/linux/refcount.h @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ #include <linux/kernel.h> /** - * refcount_t - variant of atomic_t specialized for reference counts + * struct refcount_t - variant of atomic_t specialized for reference counts * @refs: atomic_t counter field * * The counter saturates at UINT_MAX and will not move once |