Eric Dumazet says: ==================== rfs: annotate lockless accesses rfs runs without locks held, so we should annotate read and writes to shared variables. It should prevent compilers forcing writes in the following situation: if (var != val) var = val; A compiler could indeed simply avoid the conditional: var = val; This matters if var is shared between many cpus. v2: aligns one closing bracket (Simon) adds Fixes: tags (Jakub) ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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 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.
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