| | Date | Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:02:14 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [tip:perfcounters/urgent] x86: atomic64: Fix unclean type use in atomic64_xchg() |
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, tip-bot for Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Fix atomic64_xchg() to use __atomic64_read() instead.
Hmm. The whole __atomic64_read() thing should be dropped. Are there any users? None of them should be valid, as Eric's numbers showed. It's apparently better to start out with a random value rather than actually trying to read it.
Linus
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