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Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 08:01:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2]: atomic_t: Remove volatile from atomic_t
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On Mon, 17 May 2010, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> It turns out this bad code is a result of us defining atomic_t as a
> volatile int.

Heh. Ok, as you point out in the commit message, I obviously agree with 
this patch. "volatile" on data is evil, with the possible exception of 
"jiffies" type things.

So applied.

		Linus