Re: [PATCH] locking: type cleanup when accessing fast_read_ctr

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 05/19, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> So the value is unsigned by purpose; that said we should never cross the
> 2G I think, so it really doesn't matter much.

Yes, thanks, this is on purpose. Actually I was asked to make it "unsigned"
during the review, but I agree it looks better than "signed int" because
of overflows.

> That said; Oleg, should I post those patches implementing percpu-rwsem
> with the stuff we did for the hotplug lock a while back? I think I
> actually have those around somewhere.

Yes, this would be nice ;)

Oleg.

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