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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:45:53 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: use acquire ordering in __fget_light()
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 11:08 AM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Looks sane, but looking at the definition of atomic_read_acquire... ouch.
The compiler should sort all that out and the mess shouldn't affect
any code generation.
But I also wouldn't mind somebody fixing things up, because I do agree
that checking whether 'atomic_t' is a native word size is kind of
pointless and probably just makes our build times unnecessarily
longer.
Linus
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