docs/atomics: update comparison with Linux
Over time, some differences between QEMU and Linux atomics are getting smoothed. In particular, Linux grew atomic_fetch_or (and in general the differences regarding RMW operations were not described accurately) and smp_load_acquire/smp_store_release. Also, set_mb was renamed to smp_store_mb(). Include these changes in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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			@ -340,17 +340,27 @@ and memory barriers, and the equivalents in QEMU:
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  properly aligned.
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  No barriers are implied by atomic_read/set in either Linux or QEMU.
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- most atomic read-modify-write operations in Linux return void;
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  in QEMU, all of them return the old value of the variable.
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- atomic read-modify-write operations in Linux are of three kinds:
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         atomic_OP          returns void
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         atomic_OP_return   returns new value of the variable
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         atomic_fetch_OP    returns the old value of the variable
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         atomic_cmpxchg     returns the old value of the variable
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  In QEMU, the second kind does not exist.  Currently Linux has
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  atomic_fetch_or only.  QEMU provides and, or, inc, dec, add, sub.
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- different atomic read-modify-write operations in Linux imply
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  a different set of memory barriers; in QEMU, all of them enforce
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  sequential consistency, which means they imply full memory barriers
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  before and after the operation.
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- Linux does not have an equivalent of atomic_mb_read() and
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  atomic_mb_set().  In particular, note that set_mb() is a little
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  weaker than atomic_mb_set().
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- Linux does not have an equivalent of atomic_mb_set().  In particular,
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  note that smp_store_mb() is a little weaker than atomic_mb_set().
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  atomic_mb_read() compiles to the same instructions as Linux's
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  smp_load_acquire(), but this should be treated as an implementation
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  detail.  If required, QEMU might later add atomic_load_acquire() and
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  atomic_store_release() macros.
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