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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] lockdep: initialize lockdep debugging statistics
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:46:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236336363.6326.139.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903060221500.25972@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 02:27 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> That's the point about good software engineering practices: atomic_t 
> should not be assumed to be another int. 

We do, and its a rather fundamental assumption. Any implementation not
conforming is deemed buggy -- esp on the 0 property.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/216


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-05 10:29 [patch 1/2] lockdep: remove duplicate CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP definitions David Rientjes
2009-03-05 10:29 ` [patch 2/2] lockdep: initialize lockdep debugging statistics David Rientjes
2009-03-05 10:48   ` [tip:core/locking] " David Rientjes
2009-03-05 10:49   ` [patch 2/2] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-05 11:05     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-05 21:57       ` David Rientjes
2009-03-06  8:28         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-06  9:56           ` David Rientjes
2009-03-06 10:19             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-06 10:27               ` David Rientjes
2009-03-06 10:46                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-03-06 10:05           ` Li Zefan
2009-03-05 10:48 ` [tip:core/locking] lockdep: remove duplicate CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP definitions David Rientjes

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