Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:17:37 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] guard mm->rss with page_table_lock (241p11) |
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:39:24AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
Please see older threads about this, it has been discussed to death already (hint: sizeof(atomic_t), sizeof(unsigned long)).
can we not define a macro so architectures that can do do atomically inc/dec with unsigned long will? otherwise it uses the spinlock?
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