Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:59:37 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 3.19 |
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Hello!
This series contains a few documentation updates:
1. Records limitations of bitfields and small variables. Also rules out pre-EV56 Alpha, which lack 8- and 16-bit memory-reference instructions. Later Alpha CPUs are OK. (The official Alpha maintainers have thus far been silent on this patch.)
2. Document the new RCU self-test boot parameters, courtesy of Pranith Kumar.
3. Records that short-circuit boolean evaluation does not necessarily defend against control-dependency breakage by compiler optimizations.
4. Add mention of atomic_long_t to atomic_ops.txt.
5. Fix an example in memory-barriers.txt, courtesy of Pranith Kumar.
Thanx, Paul
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b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | 12 +++-- b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 ++++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
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