From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269597AbUICJgb (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 05:36:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269464AbUICJg3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 05:36:29 -0400 Received: from plam.fujitsu-siemens.com ([217.115.66.9]:59184 "EHLO plam.fujitsu-siemens.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269616AbUICJck (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 05:32:40 -0400 Message-ID: <41383E61.7000900@fujitsu-siemens.com> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:50:25 +0200 From: Martin Wilck Organization: Fujitsu Siemens Computers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm2 References: <2zaWg-4Yj-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <2zxzF-4pS-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <2zxJk-4vm-29@gated-at.bofh.it> In-Reply-To: <2zxJk-4vm-29@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: > - if (!test_bit(bit, word)) > + if (!test_and_set_bit(bit, word)) This one fixed a nasty buffer locking race I saw with 2.6.9-rc1-mm2. Thanks a lot! Regards, Martin