On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > It is useful to know how many charges are still left after a call to > res_counter_uncharge. While it is possible to issue a res_counter_read > after uncharge, this can be racy. > > If we need, for instance, to take some action when the counters drop > down to 0, only one of the callers should see it. This is the same > semantics as the atomic variables in the kernel. > > Since the current return value is void, we don't need to worry about > anything breaking due to this change: nobody relied on that, and only > users appearing from now on will be checking this value. > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glom...@parallels.com> > Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz> > Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hir...@jp.fujitsu.com> > CC: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> > CC: Suleiman Souhlal <sulei...@google.com> > CC: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
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