From: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
To: trivial@kernel.org, jkosina@suse.cz,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] doc: atomic-ops.txt: correct return value info about atomic_add_unless
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:00:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1403805649-9830-1-git-send-email-bobby.prani@gmail.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
index 68542fe..d3ad657 100644
--- a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
+++ b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
@@ -271,16 +271,13 @@ Finally:
int atomic_add_unless(atomic_t *v, int a, int u);
-If the atomic value v is not equal to u, this function adds a to v, and
-returns non zero. If v is equal to u then it returns zero. This is done as
-an atomic operation.
+If the atomic value v is not equal to u, this function adds a to v.
+It returns the old value of v. It is done as an atomic operation.
-atomic_add_unless requires explicit memory barriers around the operation
-unless it fails (returns 0).
+atomic_add_unless requires explicit memory barriers around the operation.
atomic_inc_not_zero, equivalent to atomic_add_unless(v, 1, 0)
-
If a caller requires memory barrier semantics around an atomic_t
operation which does not return a value, a set of interfaces are
defined which accomplish this:
--
1.9.1
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