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authorGrant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>2007-10-16 23:29:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 08:42:56 -0700
commit1a2142b08cbc2172e96cf8acced4ebba68aad05d (patch)
treeddd5159ebeaa3bae2a1198435562a0d3682321ee /Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
parent74beb9db77930be476b267ec8518a642f39a04bf (diff)
atomic_ops.txt: mention local_t
local_t is a variant of atomic_t and has related ops to match. Add reference for local_t documentation to atomic_ops.txt. Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ suffice:
typedef struct { volatile int counter; } atomic_t;
+local_t is very similar to atomic_t. If the counter is per CPU and only
+updated by one CPU, local_t is probably more appropriate. Please see
+Documentation/local_ops.txt for the semantics of local_t.
+
The first operations to implement for atomic_t's are the
initializers and plain reads.