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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 07:56:51 +0000
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> The fact is, atomic_long_inc_not_zero() shouldn't be returning
> anything with high bits..

Ummm...  Why's that the case?  If atomic_long_t can never exceed UINT_MAX,
then why does it exist at all?

David