On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:25:40 +0530 Madhavan Srinivasan <ma...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Local atomic operations are fast and highly reentrant per CPU counters. > Used for percpu variable updates. Local atomic operations only guarantee > variable modification atomicity wrt the CPU which owns the data and > these needs to be executed in a preemption safe way. As we've been discussing offline, these are all Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> Thanks, Nick