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-rw-r--r--Documentation/atomic_ops.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
index 05851e9982e..938f9995705 100644
--- a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
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@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ suffice:
typedef struct { volatile int counter; } atomic_t;
+local_t is very similar to atomic_t. If the counter is per CPU and only
+updated by one CPU, local_t is probably more appropriate. Please see
+Documentation/local_ops.txt for the semantics of local_t.
+
The first operations to implement for atomic_t's are the
initializers and plain reads.