linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/15] hyperv: use standard bitops

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Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2016 16:23:38 +0300
From:   Roman Kagan <rkagan@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
CC:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, <x86@...nel.org>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
        "Denis V . Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/15] hyperv: use standard bitops

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 01:00:44PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, Roman Kagan wrote:
> 
> Reverting commit 22356585712d ("staging: hv: use sync_bitops when
> interacting with the hypervisor") is save because .......
> 
> > -		sync_set_bit(channel->monitor_bit,
> > +		set_bit(channel->monitor_bit,

It isn't indeed.  I didn't realize there was a UP case where it made a
difference, and failed to locate the commit where it changed.

I'll drop this part, thanks.

Roman.