From c4081a46f38fd9917e0beb58de72391f27138d57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jonathan=20Neusch=C3=A4fer?= Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:05:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] locking/atomics/Documentation: Describe atomic_set() as a write operation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The atomic_set() and ATOMIC_INIT() operations are writes, so this commit changes their description from "reads" to "writes". Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: akiyks@gmail.com Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-8-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- 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))