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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
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Cc: Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Subject: Re: question on atomic_t
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> can I assume that a member of a structure of type atomic_t is 0 after
> using memset to zero on the structure ?

You must not do this.  use atomic_init instead.  on parisc, the locked value
of a spinlock is 0, so no more updates to that atomic value would ever work.

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