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author | Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> | 2010-05-26 17:42:42 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-05-27 12:12:43 -0400 |
commit | 5407a56257b6ade44fd9bcac972c99845b7413cd (patch) | |
tree | 833a55856af25fe9be5e8a871d89f43677eac512 /mm/swap.c | |
parent | df64f81bb1e01cbef967a96642dacf208acb7e72 (diff) |
mm: remove unnecessary use of atomic
The bottom 4 hunks are atomically changing memory to which there are no
aliases as it's freshly allocated, so there's no need to use atomic
operations.
The other hunks are just atomic_read and atomic_set, and do not involve
any read-modify-write. The use of atomic_{read,set} doesn't prevent a
read/write or write/write race, so if a race were possible (I'm not saying
one is), then it would still be there even with atomic_set.
See:
http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/13/atomic-cargo-cults/
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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