On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:17:51AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > +static u64 vmap_info_gen; > +static u64 vmap_info_cache_gen;
> +void get_vmalloc_info(struct vmalloc_info *vmi) > +{ > + u64 gen = READ_ONCE(vmap_info_gen); > + > + /* > + * If the generation counter of the cache matches that of > + * the vmalloc generation counter then return the cache: > + */ > + if (READ_ONCE(vmap_info_cache_gen) == gen) { Why are those things u64? It has the obvious down-side that you still get split loads on 32bit machines. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/