From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:00:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18628.1485943258@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFz8TFRykr0qNBjNbK+kavUdbGOm4huf5XhPLQcy0tMyLw@mail.gmail.com>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> The return value isn't the value of the atomic variable.
>
> The return value is whether the increment happened or not (ie the "was it not zero and
> could be incremented" part?)
Okay, fair enough. I was thinking of it as atomic_long_inc_return() - which
obviously it isn't.
David
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2017-01-31 21:32 ` [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 Linus Torvalds
2017-01-31 21:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-31 22:11 ` Tejun Heo
2017-01-31 22:11 ` Tejun Heo
2017-01-31 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-01-31 22:27 ` Tejun Heo
2017-02-01 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-01 0:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-02-01 5:46 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-02-01 7:56 ` David Howells
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2017-02-01 10:00 ` David Howells [this message]
2017-02-01 10:00 ` David Howells
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