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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] ring-buffer: make cpu buffer entries counter atomic
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:22:13 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ struct ring_buffer_per_cpu {
> unsigned long nmi_dropped;
> unsigned long commit_overrun;
> unsigned long overrun;
> - unsigned long entries;
> + atomic_t entries;

This switches `entries' from unsigned-64-bit to signed-32-bit.

The signedness thing is just an unfortunate thing with atomic_t and probably
doesn't matter.

The change in size might or might not be a bug - that's for the person
who didn't document the data structure to work out ;)




/*
* head_page == tail_page && head == tail then buffer is empty.
*/
struct ring_buffer_per_cpu {

the comment refers to vaporfields?


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