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diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt index 913396ac5824..dca3fb0554db 100644 --- a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt +++ b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt @@ -56,6 +56,23 @@ Barriers: smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() +TYPES (signed vs unsigned) +----- + +While atomic_t, atomic_long_t and atomic64_t use int, long and s64 +respectively (for hysterical raisins), the kernel uses -fno-strict-overflow +(which implies -fwrapv) and defines signed overflow to behave like +2s-complement. + +Therefore, an explicitly unsigned variant of the atomic ops is strictly +unnecessary and we can simply cast, there is no UB. + +There was a bug in UBSAN prior to GCC-8 that would generate UB warnings for +signed types. + +With this we also conform to the C/C++ _Atomic behaviour and things like +P1236R1. + SEMANTICS --------- |