Re: [PATCH doc] Emphasize that failed atomic operations give no ordering

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:53:38AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> The ORDERING section of Documentation/atomic_t.txt can easily be read as
> saying that conditional atomic RMW operations that fail are ordered when
> those operations have the _acquire() or _release() prefixes.  This is

s/prefixes/suffixes


> not the case, therefore update this section to make it clear that failed
> conditional atomic RMW operations provide no ordering.
> 
> Reported-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

You may want to add a "subsystem" to the subject line, git-log suggests
"Documentation/atomic_t".  Anyway,

Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>

  Andrea




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