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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-01-18 02:21:20 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-01-18 02:38:59 +0300
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Revert "local_t Documentation update"
This reverts commit e1265205c0ee3919c3f2c750662630154c8faab2. It's a duplicate commit of commit 74beb9db77930be476b267ec8518a642f39a04bf, resulting in a duplicate section. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt
index 1a45f11e645e..4269a1105b37 100644
--- a/Documentation/local_ops.txt
+++ b/Documentation/local_ops.txt
@@ -68,29 +68,6 @@ typedef struct { atomic_long_t a; } local_t;
variable can be read when reading some _other_ cpu's variables.
-* Rules to follow when using local atomic operations
-
-- Variables touched by local ops must be per cpu variables.
-- _Only_ the CPU owner of these variables must write to them.
-- This CPU can use local ops from any context (process, irq, softirq, nmi, ...)
- to update its local_t variables.
-- Preemption (or interrupts) must be disabled when using local ops in
- process context to make sure the process won't be migrated to a
- different CPU between getting the per-cpu variable and doing the
- actual local op.
-- When using local ops in interrupt context, no special care must be
- taken on a mainline kernel, since they will run on the local CPU with
- preemption already disabled. I suggest, however, to explicitly
- disable preemption anyway to make sure it will still work correctly on
- -rt kernels.
-- Reading the local cpu variable will provide the current copy of the
- variable.
-- Reads of these variables can be done from any CPU, because updates to
- "long", aligned, variables are always atomic. Since no memory
- synchronization is done by the writer CPU, an outdated copy of the
- variable can be read when reading some _other_ cpu's variables.
-
-
* How to use local atomic operations
#include <linux/percpu.h>