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Re: [PATCH 2/6] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock

From Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/6] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock
Date 2017-04-13 10:10 +0200
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On 06/04/2017 18:50, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2017, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> 
>> How is 'seqnum' wrapping handled here ?
>> I'd rather see something like time_before() here, isn't it ?
> 
> Its a 64bit counter, no overflows.

I should have miss something, what prevents this 64bit counter to not
overflow ?
At some point of time, this counter could reach ~0UL and then 0UL, which
is breaking this check.

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Re: [PATCH 2/6] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-13 10:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/6] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2017-04-13 10:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/6] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-04-13 11:00 +0200

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