linux-kernel - Re: [patch 04/41] cpu ops: Core piece for generic atomic per cpu operations

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806111635350.27184@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:39:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Subject: Re: [patch 04/41] cpu ops: Core piece for generic atomic per cpu
 operations

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:

> > 4. The modeling of local_t on atomic_t limits it to 32bit!
> 
> Again wrong.  And adding an exclamation mark doesn't make it true.

Ewww ... Its atomic_long_t ahh. Ok then there no 32 bit support. What about pointers?

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/