linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/23] make atomic_read() and atomic

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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:21:28 -0400
From:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/23] make atomic_read() and atomic_set() behavior consistent
 on ia64

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Luck, Tony wrote:
> 
>> I re-tried the macros ... the three warnings from mm/slub.c all result in
>> broken code ... and quite rightly too, they all come from code that does:
>>
>> 	atomic_read(&n->nr_slabs)
>>
>> But the nr_slabs field is an atomic_long_t, so we shouldn't be using
>> atomic_read().  I didn't spot these last time around because I was using
>> slab, not slub for the previous build.
> 
> Hmmmm...  Strange that this did not cause failures before on any other 
> platforms?

Prior to the patch in question, atomic_read was a macro.  I didn't use slub in 
my cursory testing.  Tony had ia64 under a microscope because of the tricky 
memory access ordering semantics of that architecture.

	-- Chris
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