Re: [PATCH] guard mm->rss with page_table_lock (241p11)

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 06:17:37 EST

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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?

--cw
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