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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:17:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:17:46 +0000 |
| commit | 7f3a4257159dea8e7ef66d1a539dc6df708b8ed3 (patch) | |
| tree | bcc69b5f4609f348fac49e2f59e210b29eaea783 /Documentation/atomic_t.txt | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 6.9.12. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 6.10.3.upstream/6.10.3
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt index d7adc6d543..bee3b1bca9 100644 --- a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt +++ b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt @@ -171,14 +171,14 @@ The rule of thumb: - RMW operations that are conditional are unordered on FAILURE, otherwise the above rules apply. -Except of course when an operation has an explicit ordering like: +Except of course when a successful operation has an explicit ordering like: {}_relaxed: unordered {}_acquire: the R of the RMW (or atomic_read) is an ACQUIRE {}_release: the W of the RMW (or atomic_set) is a RELEASE Where 'unordered' is against other memory locations. Address dependencies are -not defeated. +not defeated. Conditional operations are still unordered on FAILURE. Fully ordered primitives are ordered against everything prior and everything subsequent. Therefore a fully ordered primitive is like having an smp_mb() |