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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: alex.bennee@linaro.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] atomic: update documentation
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 18:27:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170921162746.11761-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 docs/devel/atomics.txt | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/devel/atomics.txt b/docs/devel/atomics.txt
index 3ef5d85b1b..048e5f23cb 100644
--- a/docs/devel/atomics.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/atomics.txt
@@ -63,11 +63,22 @@ operations:
     typeof(*ptr) atomic_fetch_sub(ptr, val)
     typeof(*ptr) atomic_fetch_and(ptr, val)
     typeof(*ptr) atomic_fetch_or(ptr, val)
+    typeof(*ptr) atomic_fetch_xor(ptr, val)
     typeof(*ptr) atomic_xchg(ptr, val)
     typeof(*ptr) atomic_cmpxchg(ptr, old, new)
 
 all of which return the old value of *ptr.  These operations are
-polymorphic; they operate on any type that is as wide as an int.
+polymorphic; they operate on any type that is as wide as a pointer.
+
+Similar operations return the new value of *ptr:
+
+    typeof(*ptr) atomic_inc_fetch(ptr)
+    typeof(*ptr) atomic_dec_fetch(ptr)
+    typeof(*ptr) atomic_add_fetch(ptr, val)
+    typeof(*ptr) atomic_sub_fetch(ptr, val)
+    typeof(*ptr) atomic_and_fetch(ptr, val)
+    typeof(*ptr) atomic_or_fetch(ptr, val)
+    typeof(*ptr) atomic_xor_fetch(ptr, val)
 
 Sequentially consistent loads and stores can be done using:
 
-- 
2.13.5

             reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-21 16:27 Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-09-22 10:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] atomic: update documentation Alex Bennée

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