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authorElena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>2017-12-05 12:46:35 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2017-12-11 14:37:11 -0700
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docs: refcount_t documentation
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>
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@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Core utilities
kernel-api
assoc_array
atomic_ops
+ refcount-vs-atomic
cpu_hotplug
local_ops
workqueue