Commit 34aebfd3 authored by Li Zefan's avatar Li Zefan Committed by Linus Torvalds

Revert "local_t Documentation update"

This reverts commit e1265205.

It's a duplicate commit of commit 74beb9db,
resulting in a duplicate section.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 545c4423
......@@ -45,29 +45,6 @@ long fails. The definition looks like :
typedef struct { atomic_long_t a; } local_t;
* 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synchronization is done by the writer CPU, an outdated copy of the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.
* Rules to follow when using local atomic operations
- Variables touched by local ops must be per cpu variables.
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