On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paul...@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.pr...@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
