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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Convert max_user_watches to long.
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:49:58 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010102148430.4151@davide-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101009075002.GW14068@sgi.com>

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010, Robin Holt wrote:

> @@ -900,11 +902,12 @@ static int ep_insert(struct eventpoll *e
>  {
>  	int error, revents, pwake = 0;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> +	long user_watches;
>  	struct epitem *epi;
>  	struct ep_pqueue epq;
>  
> -	if (unlikely(atomic_read(&ep->user->epoll_watches) >=
> -		     max_user_watches))
> +	user_watches = atomic_long_read(&ep->user->epoll_watches);
> +	if (user_watches >= max_user_watches)
>  		return -ENOSPC;

Is there a particular reason for adding an extra, otherwise unused, 
user_watches variable?


- Davide



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-01 20:01 max_user_watches overflows on 16TB system Robin Holt
2010-10-01 20:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2010-10-02  3:04   ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-10-02 14:04     ` Davide Libenzi
2010-10-04 19:44       ` [Patch] Convert max_user_watches to long Robin Holt
2010-10-06  2:21         ` Davide Libenzi
2010-10-09  7:50           ` Robin Holt
2010-10-10 19:05             ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-11  4:49             ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2010-10-14 17:15               ` Robin Holt
     [not found] <20101027190914.146006767@gulag1.americas.sgi.com>
2010-10-27 19:09 ` Robin Holt
2010-10-27 19:31   ` Davide Libenzi
2010-10-27 23:45   ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-28  2:03     ` Davide Libenzi
2010-10-28  4:08       ` Andrew Morton

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