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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-02 22:41:36 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-02 22:41:36 +0100 |
commit | 923a789b49c7269a0245d5af6afe486188d940df (patch) | |
tree | c3f168427372e64f7467a794f313416da5086ba0 /Documentation/filesystems/files.txt | |
parent | 103ceffb9501531f6931df6aebc11a05189201f0 (diff) | |
parent | b840d79631c882786925303c2b0f4fefc31845ed (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cleanups
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/files.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/files.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt index bb0142f6108..ac2facc50d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt @@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ the fdtable structure - 5. Handling of the file structures is special. Since the look-up of the fd (fget()/fget_light()) are lock-free, it is possible that look-up may race with the last put() operation on the - file structure. This is avoided using atomic_inc_not_zero() + file structure. This is avoided using atomic_long_inc_not_zero() on ->f_count : rcu_read_lock(); file = fcheck_files(files, fd); if (file) { - if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count)) + if (atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count)) *fput_needed = 1; else /* Didn't get the reference, someone's freed */ @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ the fdtable structure - .... return file; - atomic_inc_not_zero() detects if refcounts is already zero or + atomic_long_inc_not_zero() detects if refcounts is already zero or goes to zero during increment. If it does, we fail fget()/fget_light(). |