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Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Document ACCESS_ONCE()
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:59:07 +0000 (13:59 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:36:12 +0000 (11:36 +0100)
commit692118dac47e65f5131686b1103ebfebf0cbfa8e
tree1bba0afd9809bec501d5ec65d43ad3bcbb2e0574
parent18c03c61444a211237f3d4782353cb38dba795df
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Document ACCESS_ONCE()

The situations in which ACCESS_ONCE() is required are not well
documented, so this commit adds some verbiage to
memory-barriers.txt.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt