On Wed, 5 May 2010 14:21:48 +0300
Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The bottom 4 hunks are atomically changing memory to which there
> are no aliases as it's freshly allocated, so there's no need to
> use atomic operations.
>
> The other hunks are just atomic_read and atomic_set, and do not
> involve any read-modify-write. The use of atomic_{read,set}
> doesn't prevent a read/write or write/write race, so if a race
> were possible (I'm not saying one is), then it would still be
> there even with atomic_set.
>
> See:
> http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/13/atomic-cargo-cults/
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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