From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753878AbaGHJul (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 05:50:41 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:44118 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753677AbaGHJuj (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2014 05:50:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 02:50:38 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Jens Axboe , dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] blk-lib: fix error reporting Message-ID: <20140708095038.GA31180@infradead.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > + if (unlikely(err)) > + ACCESS_ONCE(bb->error) = err; I can't see a reason for the ACCESS_ONCE here. Also the likely/unlikely annotations here smell like premature optimization. Otherwise looks good to me.