BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst, branch dev-4.17Intel OpenBMC Linux kernel source tree (mirror)https://git.radix-linux.su/BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/atom?h=dev-4.172017-12-11T21:37:11+00:00docs: refcount_t documentation2017-12-11T21:37:11+00:00Elena Reshetovaelena.reshetova@intel.com2017-12-05T10:46:35+00:00urn:sha1:b6e859f6cdd1686c021dcb3e18591d0b28ce8867
Some functions from refcount_t API provide different
memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts.
This adds a document outlining these differences (
Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as
some other minor improvements.
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>