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Currently the atomics are documented in Documentation/atomic_t.txt, and
have no kerneldoc comments. There are a sufficient number of gotchas
(e.g. semantics, noinstr-safety) that it would be nice to have comments
to call these out, and it would be nice to have kerneldoc comments such
that these can be collated.

While it's possible to derive the semantics from the code, this can be
painful given the amount of indirection we currently have (e.g. fallback
paths), and it's easy to be mislead by naming, e.g.

* The unconditional void-returning ops *only* have relaxed variants
  without a _relaxed suffix, and can easily be mistaken for being fully
  ordered.

  It would be nice to give these a _relaxed() suffix, but this would
  result in significant churn throughout the kernel.

* Our naming of conditional and unconditional+test ops is rather
  inconsistent, and it can be difficult to derive the name of an
  operation, or to identify where an op is conditio...