RE: [PATCH 1/5] sched: convert sighand_struct.count to refcount_t

From: Reshetova, Elena
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 12:24:26 EST


> Hi Elena,

Hi!

>
> [...]
>
> > **Important note for maintainers:
> >
> > Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c
> > have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic
> > counterparts.
> > The full comparison can be seen in
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/15/57 and it is hopefully soon
> > in state to be merged to the documentation tree.
>
> Just a remark to point out that that document got merged, even though
> in a different location/format: c.f.,
>
> b6e859f6cdd1 ("docs: refcount_t documentation")
>

Ups, indeed, forgot that we merged the docs. It has been long time that
these patches has been sitting in my old repo.

Best Regards,
Elena.