linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

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Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:10:50 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, johnpol@....mipt.ru, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
	rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk, dhowells@...hat.com, akpm@...l.org,
	matthew@....cx, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an
 atomic-bitops safe assignment

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:56:24 +0000

> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares 
> > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field.
> 
> This fixes drivers/connector/connector.c to cope...
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>

I have a fix for this already in my net-2.6 tree and I'll push it
later tonight.
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