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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>, "cl@linux.com" <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [patch v3 2/3] percpu_counter: fix code for 32bit systems for UP
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:54:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302749677.3549.26.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302749044.3981.183.camel@sli10-conroe>

Le jeudi 14 avril 2011 à 10:44 +0800, Shaohua Li a écrit :
> that's true. I just want the code looks consistent and this doesn't
> really obfuscate the code to me.

Doing so gives a false sense of security to user.

percpu_counter_init() is unsafe by nature.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-14  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-14  2:04 [patch v3 0/3] percpu_counter: cleanup and fix shaohua.li
2011-04-14  2:04 ` [patch v3 1/3] percpu_counter: change return value and add comments shaohua.li
2011-04-14  2:32   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-15  3:41   ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-14  2:04 ` [patch v3 2/3] percpu_counter: fix code for 32bit systems for UP shaohua.li
2011-04-14  2:35   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-04-14  2:44     ` Shaohua Li
2011-04-14  2:54       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-04-18  7:41         ` Shaohua Li
2011-04-14  2:04 ` [patch v3 3/3] percpu_counter: use atomic64 for counter in SMP shaohua.li
2011-04-15  4:15   ` Tejun Heo
2011-04-18  7:43     ` Shaohua Li
2011-04-18 14:25       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-04-20  1:04         ` Shaohua Li

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