locking/atomics/Documentation: Describe atomic_set() as a write operation

The atomic_set() and ATOMIC_INIT() operations are writes, so this
commit changes their description from "reads" to "writes".

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716180605.16115-8-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Jonathan Neuschäfer 2018-07-16 11:05:59 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 24675bb554
commit c4081a46f3

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@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ updated by one CPU, local_t is probably more appropriate. Please see
local_t.
The first operations to implement for atomic_t's are the initializers and
plain reads. ::
plain writes. ::
#define ATOMIC_INIT(i) { (i) }
#define atomic_set(v, i) ((v)->counter = (i))