Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6

From	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6
Date	2017-02-01 11:10 +0100
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> The return value isn't the value of the atomic variable.
> 
> The return value is whether the increment happened or not (ie the "was it not zero and
> could be incremented" part?)

Okay, fair enough.  I was thinking of it as atomic_long_inc_return() - which
obviously it isn't.

David

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[GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-01-31 18:00 +0100
  Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-01-31 22:50 +0100
    Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-01-31 22:50 +0100
      Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-01-31 23:20 +0100
        Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-01-31 23:30 +0100
          Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-02-01 01:40 +0100
        Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-01-31 23:30 +0100
    Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-02-01 09:00 +0100
      Re: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v4.10-rc6 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-02-01 11:10 +0100

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