linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/9] random: forget lock in lockless accounting

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Date:	Fri, 29 Nov 2013 20:10:23 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Greg Price <price@....EDU>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] random: forget lock in lockless accounting

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 03:08:28AM -0500, Greg Price wrote:
> The only mutable data accessed here is ->entropy_count, but since
> 902c098a3 ("random: use lockless techniques in the interrupt path")
> that member isn't protected by the lock anyway.  Since 10b3a32d2
> ("random: fix accounting race condition") we use cmpxchg to protect
> our accesses to ->entropy_count here.  Drop the use of the lock.

Applied, with a slight change to clarify the commit description:

    The only mutable data accessed here is ->entropy_count, but since
    10b3a32d2 ("random: fix accounting race condition") we use cmpxchg to
    protect our accesses to ->entropy_count here.  Drop the use of the
    lock.

Thanks!

						- Ted
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