Re: [PATCH 7/8] IPMI: convert locked counters to atomics

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> The code forgot to initialise all of these.
>
> It just so happens that the all-bits-zero pattern works correctly for all
> current architectures, so the code should work OK.  But there is no reason
> (I hope) why an architecture cannot implement atomic_t as
>
> struct atomic_t {
> 	int counter;
> 	spinlock_t lock;
> };
>
> in which case the results of ATOMIC_INIT() may _not_ be all-zeroes, in
> which case the code will deadlock.
>
> So.  It works, but it's grubby.   Do you still wish to proceed?
>   
Thanks.  Don't proceed for now, I'll work up new patches.

-corey