Re: [PATCH] Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE()

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Wed Nov 16 2016 - 18:19:23 EST


On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:12:49 +0000
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> While the {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() macros should be used in preference to
> ACCESS_ONCE(), the circular buffer documentation uses the latter
> exclusively.
>
> To point people in the right direction, and as a step towards the
> eventual removal of ACCESS_ONCE(), update the documentation to use
> READ_ONCE(), as ACCESS_ONCE() is only used in a reader context in the
> circular buffer documentation.

Applied to the docs tree, thanks.

jon