Re: [PATCH] Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE()

From	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE()
Date	2016-11-17 00:20 +0100
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:12:49 +0000
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:

> While the {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() macros should be used in preference to
> ACCESS_ONCE(), the circular buffer documentation uses the latter
> exclusively.
> 
> To point people in the right direction, and as a step towards the
> eventual removal of ACCESS_ONCE(), update the documentation to use
> READ_ONCE(), as ACCESS_ONCE() is only used in a reader context in the
> circular buffer documentation.

Applied to the docs tree, thanks.

jon

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[PATCH] Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE() Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-11-16 12:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE() David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 14:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE() "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-11-16 15:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Documentation: circular-buffers: use READ_ONCE() Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-11-17 00:20 +0100

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