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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 09:00 +0100
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> The fact is, atomic_long_inc_not_zero() shouldn't be returning
> anything with high bits..

Ummm...  Why's that the case?  If atomic_long_t can never exceed UINT_MAX,
then why does it exist at all?

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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