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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>,
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	"Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert struct pid count to refcount_t
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:37:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190329173723.GB23683@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190329023456.GB194158@google.com>

On 03/28, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>
> Also Oleg, why not just call refcount_dec_and_test like below?

Of course we can, this is just optimization to avoid the atomic op if possible.

Does this optimization really help? I have no idea ;)

But as you can see, it surely helps to provoke the interesting discussions!

Oleg.


      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-29 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-27 14:53 Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-28  0:06 ` Kees Cook
2019-03-28  0:59   ` Jann Horn
2019-03-28  2:34     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-28  2:57       ` Jann Horn
2019-03-28 14:37         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-28 15:17           ` Jann Horn
2019-03-28 16:26             ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-03-28 17:37               ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-03-29 17:32                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-03-29 19:45                   ` Alan Stern
2019-04-01 15:28                     ` David Laight
2019-03-30  2:36                 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-30 15:16                   ` Alan Stern
2019-03-31 21:57                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-03-31 21:55                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-01 21:11                     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-04 15:23                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-04 16:01                         ` Alan Stern
2019-04-04 18:08                           ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-04 18:19                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-04 20:31                               ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-04 19:09                             ` Alan Stern
2019-03-28 20:00             ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-29  2:24               ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-28 16:52           ` Kees Cook
2019-03-28 14:26       ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-03-28 14:39         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-29  2:34           ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-29 17:37             ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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