s to make the tryget routines use an actual boolean internally instead
of the atomic long result truncated to a int.
Fixes: e625305b3907 percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of
ints
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190751
Signed-off-by: Douglas Miller
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s to make the tryget routines return an actual boolean instead
of the atomic long result truncated to a bool.
Fixes: e625305b3907 percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of
ints
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190751
Signed-off-by: Douglas Miller
Reviewed-by: Jens
Removed extraneous parentheses. Did not switch to "bool" as that would
necessitate
more testing and raises the question whether other platforms might have a
different
definition for "bool" that would not fix this problem.
I will re-test and post the patch using "bool" when finished.
On 01/27/2017 06:13 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 05:32:15PM -0600, Douglas Miller wrote:
Removed extraneous parentheses. Did not switch to "bool" as that would
necessitate
more testing and
I'd like to request this be flagged for "stable".
Thanks,
Doug
On 01/27/2017 02:59 PM, Douglas Miller wrote:
percpu_ref_tryget() and percpu_ref_tryget_live() should return
"true" IFF they acquire a reference. But the return value from
atomic_long_inc_not_zero() is
s to make the tryget routines return an actual boolean instead
of the atomic long result truncated to a bool.
Fixes: e625305b3907 percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of
ints
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190751
Signed-off-by: Douglas Miller
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