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authorJonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>2018-07-16 11:05:59 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-07-17 09:30:31 +0200
commitc4081a46f38fd9917e0beb58de72391f27138d57 (patch)
treeea2738667adc535abc6a3f9795646981c6a70ae1
parent24675bb554f9e3d0e2bd61f6a7d8da50d224c8ff (diff)
locking/atomics/Documentation: Describe atomic_set() as a write operation
The atomic_set() and ATOMIC_INIT() operations are writes, so this commit changes their description from "reads" to "writes". Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akiyks@gmail.com Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-8-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
index 2e7165f86f55..724583453e1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ updated by one CPU, local_t is probably more appropriate. Please see
local_t.
The first operations to implement for atomic_t's are the initializers and
-plain reads. ::
+plain writes. ::
#define ATOMIC_INIT(i) { (i) }
#define atomic_set(v, i) ((v)->counter = (i))