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SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 3.19
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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.


Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>

>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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(-)
>



--
Pranith


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