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documentation: Add atomic_long_t to atomic_ops.txt
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
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maintainers on how to implement atomic counter, bitops, and spinlock
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interfaces properly.
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The atomic_t type should be defined as a signed integer.
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Also, it should be made opaque such that any kind of cast to a normal
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C integer type will fail. Something like the following should
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suffice:
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The atomic_t type should be defined as a signed integer and
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the atomic_long_t type as a signed long integer. Also, they should
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be made opaque such that any kind of cast to a normal C integer type
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will fail. Something like the following should suffice:
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typedef struct { int counter; } atomic_t;
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typedef struct { long counter; } atomic_long_t;
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Historically, counter has been declared volatile. This is now discouraged.
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See Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt for the complete rationale.
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@ -37,6 +38,9 @@ initializer is used before runtime. If the initializer is used at runtime, a
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proper implicit or explicit read memory barrier is needed before reading the
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value with atomic_read from another thread.
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As with all of the atomic_ interfaces, replace the leading "atomic_"
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with "atomic_long_" to operate on atomic_long_t.
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The second interface can be used at runtime, as in:
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struct foo { atomic_t counter; };
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