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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.
Michael Clark
authored
commit 94ee12b5 upstream. __cmpxchg_small erroneously uses u8 for load comparison which can be either char or short. This patch changes the local variable to u32 which is sufficiently sized, as the loaded value is already masked and shifted appropriately. Using an integer size avoids any unnecessary canonicalization from use of non native widths. This patch is part of a series that adapts the MIPS small word atomics code for xchg and cmpxchg on short and char to RISC-V. Cc: RISC-V Patches <patches@groups.riscv.org> Cc: Linux RISC-V <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org> Cc: Linux MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by:Michael Clark <michaeljclark@mac.com> [paul.burton@mips.com: - Fix varialble typo per Jonas Gorski. - Consolidate load variable with other declarations.] Signed-off-by:
Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Fixes: 3ba7f44d ("MIPS: cmpxchg: Implement 1 byte & 2 byte cmpxchg()") Cc: stable@vger...