Re: [PATCH] Revert "local_t Documentation update"

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

* Li Zefan (lizf@cn.fujitsu.com) wrote:
> This reverts commit e1265205c0ee3919c3f2c750662630154c8faab2.
> 
> It's a duplicate commit of commit 74beb9db77930be476b267ec8518a642f39a04bf,
> resulting in a duplicate section.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 

Thanks, I guess it's been merged twice somehow :S

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>

> ---
>  Documentation/local_ops.txt |   23 -----------------------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt
> index 1a45f11..4269a11 100644
> --- a/Documentation/local_ops.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/local_ops.txt
> @@ -68,29 +68,6 @@ typedef struct { atomic_long_t a; } local_t;
>    variable can be read when reading some _other_ cpu's variables.
>  
>  
> -* Rules to follow when using local atomic operations
> -
> -- Variables touched by local ops must be per cpu variables.
> -- _Only_ the CPU owner of these variables must write to them.
> -- This CPU can use local ops from any context (process, irq, softirq, nmi, ...)
> -  to update its local_t variables.
> -- Preemption (or interrupts) must be disabled when using local ops in
> -  process context to   make sure the process won't be migrated to a
> -  different CPU between getting the per-cpu variable and doing the
> -  actual local op.
> -- When using local ops in interrupt context, no special care must be
> -  taken on a mainline kernel, since they will run on the local CPU with
> -  preemption already disabled. I suggest, however, to explicitly
> -  disable preemption anyway to make sure it will still work correctly on
> -  -rt kernels.
> -- Reading the local cpu variable will provide the current copy of the
> -  variable.
> -- Reads of these variables can be done from any CPU, because updates to
> -  "long", aligned, variables are always atomic. Since no memory
> -  synchronization is done by the writer CPU, an outdated copy of the
> -  variable can be read when reading some _other_ cpu's variables.
> -
> -
>  * How to use local atomic operations
>  
>  #include <linux/percpu.h>
> -- 
> 1.5.3.rc7
> 

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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