Re: [PATCH doc] Emphasize that failed atomic operations give no ordering
From: Andrea Parri
Date: Tue Jan 30 2024 - 11:03:10 EST
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:53:38AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> The ORDERING section of Documentation/atomic_t.txt can easily be read as
> saying that conditional atomic RMW operations that fail are ordered when
> those operations have the _acquire() or _release() prefixes. This is
s/prefixes/suffixes
> not the case, therefore update this section to make it clear that failed
> conditional atomic RMW operations provide no ordering.
>
> Reported-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
You may want to add a "subsystem" to the subject line, git-log suggests
"Documentation/atomic_t". Anyway,
Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
Andrea