On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 09:03:20AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 11/10/20 9:33 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > > There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
> > > is used strictly for counting sequence numbers
On 11/10/20 9:33 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical
counters and not for managing object lifetime.
We
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
> is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical
> counters and not for managing object lifetime.
We already have something in Linux called a
On 11/10/20 1:44 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical
counters and not for managing object lifetime.
The
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
> is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical
> counters and not for managing object lifetime.
>
> The purpose of these Sequence Number Ops
There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical
counters and not for managing object lifetime.
The purpose of these Sequence Number Ops is to clearly differentiate
atomic_t counter usages from atomic_t
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