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Preparation for generic atomic implementation. To unify the implementation of a generic method over `i32` and `i64`, the C side atomic methods need to be grouped so that in a generic method, they can be referred as <type>::<method>, otherwise their parameters and return value are different between `i32` and `i64`, which would require using `transmute()` to unify the type into a `T`. Introduce `AtomicImpl` to represent a basic type in Rust that has the direct mapping to an atomic implementation from C. Use a sealed trait to restrict `AtomicImpl` to only support `i32` and `i64` for now. Further, different methods are put into different `*Ops` trait groups, and this is for the future when smaller types like `i8`/`i16` are supported but only with a limited set of API (e.g. only set(), load(), xchg() and cmpxchg(), no add() or sub() etc). While the atomic mod is introduced, documentation is also added for memory models and data races. Also bump my role to the maintainer of ATOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE to reflect my responsibility on the Rust atomic mod. Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Elle Rhumsaa <elle@weathered-steel.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250719030827.61357-3-boqun.feng@gmail.com/
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.