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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/8] cgroups: Add res_counter_write_u64() API
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 05:17:39PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/29, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> >
> > +void res_counter_write_u64(struct res_counter *counter, int member, u64 val)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long long *target;
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > + spin_lock_irqsave(&counter->lock, flags);
> > + target = res_counter_member(counter, member);
> > + *target = val;
> > + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&counter->lock, flags);
> > +}
>
> Hmm. Why do we need counter->lock?
>
> OK, probably it is for BITS_PER_LONG < 64. May be it makes sense
> to ifdef, just to make the code more understandable.

Ok, will add that.


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