Commit 72eef0f3 authored by Nikanth Karthikesan's avatar Nikanth Karthikesan Committed by Linus Torvalds

Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: avoid volatile in sample code

As declaring counter as volatile is discouraged, it is best not to use it
in sample code as well.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1d582723
......@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Also, it should be made opaque such that any kind of cast to a normal
C integer type will fail. Something like the following should
suffice:
typedef struct { volatile int counter; } atomic_t;
typedef struct { int counter; } atomic_t;
Historically, counter has been declared volatile. This is now discouraged.
See Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt for the complete rationale.
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