Re: [PATCH] removes filp_count_lock and changes nr_files type toatomic_t

[Eric Dumazet]

Christoph Hellwig a écrit :
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:45:12AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> > This patch assumes that atomic_read() is a plain {return v->counter;} on 
> > all architectures. (keywords : sysctl, /proc/sys/fs/file-nr, proc_dointvec)
>
>
> But that's not true.  You need to write you own sysctl handler for it,
> probably worth adding a generic atomic_t sysctl handler while you're
> at it.

I checked linux-2.6.13-rc7 tree, and atomic_read() is just a wrapper to read 
v->counter.

In the ancient times, yes, atomic_read() was different on some archs, but not 
today.

Eric

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