Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> incrementing the variable with a "++" when interrupts are not disabled.
> It's not an atomic add and it's racy. The code within stat() does
> exactly this.

Yes but that is only for used for statistics which can be racy. Note that 
the VM event statistics also can be racy.

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