On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 08:39:15PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Completely untested and I know nothing about aio, thus needs an ack
> from maintainers or should be ignored.
>
> But exit_aio() looks "obviously unnecessarily overcomplicated", I was
> really puzzled when I looked at this code by accident.
>
> Kent, could you also explain kioctx->dead is atomic_t? This looks
> pointless? afaics atomic_ buys nothing in this case.
If it wasn't atomic, it would need to be volatile.
-ben
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