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xchg() for a single-byte location assembles to a 4-byte Compare&Swap, wrapped into a non-trivial amount of retry code that deals with concurrent modifications to the unaffected bytes. Change it to a simple byte-store, but preserve the memory ordering semantics that the CS provided. This simplifies the generated code for a hot path, and in theory also allows us to amortize the memory barriers over multiple SLSB updates. CC: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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 Restructured Text 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.