On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 09:30, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And yes, using "atomic_long_t" for stashed is a crime against
> humanity. It's also entirely pointless. There are no actual atomic
> operations that the code wants [..]
Just to clarify: the reason to use 'atomic_long_t' is for the
_arithmetic_ atomic ops. So the "inc/dec/inc_and_test" etc.
The code wants none of that, and can make do with the regular smp-safe
cmpxchg operation that works on any word-sized type.
Linus
