Documentation: Memory barrier semantics of atomic_xchg()

Add atomic_xchg() to documentation for atomic operations and
memory barriers.

Signed-off-by: Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
index 27f2b21a9d5c..d9ca5be9b471 100644
--- a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
+++ b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
@@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ This performs an atomic exchange operation on the atomic variable v, setting
 the given new value.  It returns the old value that the atomic variable v had
 just before the operation.
 
+atomic_xchg requires explicit memory barriers around the operation.
+
         int atomic_cmpxchg(atomic_t *v, int old, int new);
 
 This performs an atomic compare exchange operation on the atomic value v,