linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] lockdep: initialize lockdep debugging statistics

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Message-Id: <1236328083.5187.1213.camel@laptop>
Date:	Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:28:03 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] lockdep: initialize lockdep debugging statistics

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 13:57 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> It shouldn't be dropped, the initialization is necessary because we can't 
> rely on atomic_t's implementation.

I'm a bit slow, please use more words and explain this to me.

Before replying please read:

ea435467500612636f8f4fb639ff6e76b2496e4b

and stare at the output of:

git grep "define[ \t]*ATOMIC_INIT\>"


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