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SubjectRe: [PATCH] percpu-refcount: support synchronous switch to atomic mode.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:50:12PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_sync() schedules the switch
> to atomic mode, then waits for it to complete.
>
> Also export percpu_ref_switch_to_* so they can be used from modules.
>
> This will be used in md/raid to count the number of pending write
> requests to an array.
> We occasionally need to check if the count is zero, but most often
> we don't care.
> We always want updates to the counter to be fast, as in some cases
> we count every 4K page.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Please feel free to route through other patches through md tree. If
preferable, I can route it through percpu/for-4.12.

Thanks.

--
tejun

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