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Architectures are required to provide four-byte cmpxchg() and 64-bit architectures are additionally required to provide eight-byte cmpxchg(). However, there are cases where one-byte cmpxchg() would be extremely useful. Therefore, provide cmpxchg_emu_u8() that emulates one-byte cmpxchg() in terms of four-byte cmpxchg(). Note that this emulations is fully ordered, and can (for example) cause one-byte cmpxchg_relaxed() to incur the overhead of full ordering. If this causes problems for a given architecture, that architecture is free to provide its own lighter-weight primitives. [ paulmck: Apply Marco Elver feedback. ] [ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ] [ paulmck: Drop two-byte support per Arnd Bergmann feedback. ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0733eb10-5e7a-4450-9b8a-527b97c842ff@paulmck-laptop/ Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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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.