From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE()
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:18:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161116161856.66ce7994@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479294769-12723-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com>
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:12:49 +0000
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> 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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-16 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-16 11:12 [PATCH] Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE() Mark Rutland
2016-11-16 13:42 ` David Howells
2016-11-16 14:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-16 23:18 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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