From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 08:24:03 -0700
> [PATCH v2] af_unix: fix a fatal race with bit fields
>
> Using bit fields is dangerous on ppc64/sparc64, as the compiler [1]
> uses 64bit instructions to manipulate them.
> If the 64bit word includes any atomic_t or spinlock_t, we can lo
> diff --git a/include/net/af_unix.h b/include/net/af_unix.h
> index a8836e8..dbdfd2b 100644
> --- a/include/net/af_unix.h
> +++ b/include/net/af_unix.h
> @@ -57,9 +57,10 @@ struct unix_sock {
> struct list_headlink;
> atomic_long_t inflight;
> spinlock_t
On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 16:53 +0100, David Laight wrote:
> Why not just change gc_candidate and gc_maybe_cycle to
> unsigned char?
> It might reduce the number of pad bytes somewhat.
You didn't quite follow the discussion.
I used bytes on V1, and we are not 100% sure its safe on all arches.
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