Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 3.19

[Pranith Kumar]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx>

>
>                                                         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 majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/