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From: "Jonathan Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Jonathan Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: atomic_ops: atomic_set is a write (not read) operation
Date: Tue,  5 Jun 2018 21:43:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180605194326.23596-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> (raw)

Describe it as such.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
---
 Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
index 2e7165f86f55..724583453e1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ updated by one CPU, local_t is probably more appropriate. Please see
 local_t.
 
 The first operations to implement for atomic_t's are the initializers and
-plain reads. ::
+plain writes. ::
 
 	#define ATOMIC_INIT(i)		{ (i) }
 	#define atomic_set(v, i)	((v)->counter = (i))
-- 
2.17.1

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             reply	other threads:[~2018-06-05 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-05 19:43 Jonathan Neuschäfer [this message]
2018-06-06  8:07 ` [PATCH] docs: atomic_ops: atomic_set is a write (not read) operation Paul E. McKenney
2018-06-29 13:43   ` Andrea Parri
2018-07-02 18:55     ` Paul E. McKenney

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