Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2018 23:25:21 -0700 | From | tip-bot for SeongJae Park <> | Subject | [tip:locking/core] locking/Documentation: Use `warning` RST directive |
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Commit-ID: 173af2613efdc29547718848a0a2928a26b1398f Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/173af2613efdc29547718848a0a2928a26b1398f Author: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 14 May 2018 15:55:33 -0700 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> CommitDate: Tue, 15 May 2018 08:11:15 +0200
locking/Documentation: Use `warning` RST directive
Use the proper RST directive, pointed out by a build warning.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 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 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1526338533-6044-8-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> --- Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst index 4ea4af71e68a..2e7165f86f55 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst @@ -466,10 +466,12 @@ Like the above, except that these routines return a boolean which indicates whether the changed bit was set _BEFORE_ the atomic bit operation. -WARNING! It is incredibly important that the value be a boolean, -ie. "0" or "1". Do not try to be fancy and save a few instructions by -declaring the above to return "long" and just returning something like -"old_val & mask" because that will not work. + +.. warning:: + It is incredibly important that the value be a boolean, ie. "0" or "1". + Do not try to be fancy and save a few instructions by declaring the + above to return "long" and just returning something like "old_val & + mask" because that will not work. For one thing, this return value gets truncated to int in many code paths using these interfaces, so on 64-bit if the bit is set in the
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