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* docs: refcount_t documentationElena Reshetova2017-12-111-0/+150
Some functions from refcount_t API provide different memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts. This adds a document outlining these differences ( Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as some other minor improvements. Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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