linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount

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Message-ID: <20130901141139.43645159@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Sun, 1 Sep 2013 14:11:39 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless
 update of refcount

On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:49:48 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:


> Nobody used to care, because we used to not use that broken type in the kernel.

I've been told that gcc works better with 'bool' than with an int.
Should I replace those bools with bit fields in the structure?

-- Steve
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