On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > It seems that there could be a lot of places where atomic_t is used in > a non-atomic fashion, and that those uses are either buggy, or there > is some lock held at the time which guarantees that other CPUs aren't > changing the value. In both cases there is no point in using > atomic_t; we might as well just use an ordinary int.
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