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Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Add long atomic examples to memory-barriers.txt 

Although the atomic_long_t functions are quite useful, they are
a bit obscure.  This commit therefore adds the common ones
alongside their atomic_t counterparts in
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Paul E. McKenney 2013-12-11 13:59:05 -08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -1728,21 +1728,23 @@ explicit lock operations, described later). These include:
xchg();
cmpxchg();
atomic_xchg();
atomic_cmpxchg();
atomic_inc_return();
atomic_dec_return();
atomic_add_return();
atomic_sub_return();
atomic_inc_and_test();
atomic_dec_and_test();
atomic_sub_and_test();
atomic_add_negative();
atomic_add_unless(); /* when succeeds (returns 1) */
atomic_xchg(); atomic_long_xchg();
atomic_cmpxchg(); atomic_long_cmpxchg();
atomic_inc_return(); atomic_long_inc_return();
atomic_dec_return(); atomic_long_dec_return();
atomic_add_return(); atomic_long_add_return();
atomic_sub_return(); atomic_long_sub_return();
atomic_inc_and_test(); atomic_long_inc_and_test();
atomic_dec_and_test(); atomic_long_dec_and_test();
atomic_sub_and_test(); atomic_long_sub_and_test();
atomic_add_negative(); atomic_long_add_negative();
test_and_set_bit();
test_and_clear_bit();
test_and_change_bit();
/* when succeeds (returns 1) */
atomic_add_unless(); atomic_long_add_unless();
These are used for such things as implementing LOCK-class and UNLOCK-class
operations and adjusting reference counters towards object destruction, and as
such the implicit memory barrier effects are necessary.