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    Documentation/locking/atomic: Add documents for new atomic_t APIs · 706eeb3e
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    Since we've vastly expanded the atomic_t interface in recent years the
    existing documentation is woefully out of date and people seem to get
    confused a bit.
    
    Start a new document to hopefully better explain the current state of
    affairs.
    
    The old atomic_ops.txt also covers bitmaps and a few more details so
    this is not a full replacement and we'll therefore keep that document
    around until such a time that we've managed to write more text to cover
    its entire.
    
    Also please, ReST people, go away.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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