Re: [PATCH] Use test_and_clear_bit() instead atomic_dec_and_test()for stop_machine
From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Jun 07 2012 - 08:54:18 EST
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 13:19 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> >> The down side to this is that it adds 4 more bytes on a 64bit
> >> machine. (sizeof(unsigned log) == 8 and sizeof(atomic_t) == 4)
>
> Another patch without additional 4bytes. This simply change
> atomic_dec_and_test() to atomic_xchg().
>
If nobody picked this up, you might want to resend it with my acked-by.
(The second patch, not the first). As patches added to replies are
usually ignored.
-- Steve
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