Re: [patch 2/2] lockdep: initialize lockdep debugging statistics

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 02:27 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> That's the point about good software engineering practices: atomic_t 
> should not be assumed to be another int. 

We do, and its a rather fundamental assumption. Any implementation not
conforming is deemed buggy -- esp on the 0 property.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/216

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