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2017-06-08doc/atomic_ops: Clarify smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()Paul E. McKenney
This commit explicitly states that surrounding a non-value-returning atomic read-modify atomic operations provides full ordering, just as is provided by value-returning atomic read-modify-write operations. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-11-30Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markupSilvio Fricke
... and move to core-api folder. Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>