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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>,
	David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>,
	Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>,
	Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	edumazet@google.com, paulmck@kernel.org, shakeelb@google.com,
	James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>,
	alex.huangjianhui@huawei.com, dylix.dailei@huawei.com,
	chenzefeng2@huawei.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] locking/refcount: Provide __refcount API to obtain the old value
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:30:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202007291229.0305C794@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200729111120.GA2638@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:11:20PM +0200, peterz@infradead.org wrote:
> Subject: locking/refcount: Provide __refcount API to obtain the old value
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Date: Wed Jul 29 13:00:57 CEST 2020
> 
> David requested means to obtain the old/previous value from the
> refcount API for tracing purposes.
> 
> Duplicate (most of) the API as __refcount*() with an additional
> 'int *' argument into which, if !NULL, the old value will be stored.
> 
> Requested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

This looks good to me. Thanks for poking at it!

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-29 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-12 18:34 [PATCH 0/3] Convert nsproxy, groups, and creds to refcount_t Kees Cook
2020-06-12 18:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] nsproxy: convert nsproxy.count " Kees Cook
2020-06-12 18:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] groups: convert group_info.usage " Kees Cook
2020-06-15  0:57   ` [groups] 67467ae141: will-it-scale.per_process_ops 4.3% improvement kernel test robot
2020-06-12 18:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] creds: convert cred.usage to refcount_t Kees Cook
2020-06-15  2:02   ` Xiaoming Ni
2020-06-15  2:10 ` [PATCH 0/3] Convert nsproxy, groups, and creds " Xiaoming Ni
2020-06-15  3:55   ` Kees Cook
2020-06-15  5:35     ` Reshetova, Elena
2020-06-15 18:08       ` Kees Cook
2020-06-18  7:39         ` Reshetova, Elena
2020-07-21 11:02           ` David Howells
2020-07-21 10:51     ` David Howells
2020-07-21 18:44       ` Kees Cook
2020-07-21 19:51         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-28 10:56           ` David Howells
2020-07-29 11:11             ` [RFC][PATCH] locking/refcount: Provide __refcount API to obtain the old value peterz
2020-07-29 11:37               ` peterz
2020-07-29 19:29                 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-29 19:30               ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-07-29 20:41               ` David Howells
2020-07-29 20:52                 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-27  7:54               ` [tip: locking/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-21 11:22               ` [RFC][PATCH] " Will Deacon
2021-01-26 11:25                 ` David Howells
2020-07-28 11:01         ` [PATCH 0/3] Convert nsproxy, groups, and creds to refcount_t David Howells

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