Re: [PATCH 1/5] sched: convert sighand_struct.count to refcount_t

From: Andrea Parri
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 07:56:21 EST


Hi Elena,

[...]

> **Important note for maintainers:
>
> Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c
> have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic
> counterparts.
> The full comparison can be seen in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/15/57 and it is hopefully soon
> in state to be merged to the documentation tree.

Just a remark to point out that that document got merged, even though
in a different location/format: c.f.,

b6e859f6cdd1 ("docs: refcount_t documentation")

Andrea