Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753578AbWLRJKx (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:10:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753579AbWLRJKx (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:10:53 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39118 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753577AbWLRJKw (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 04:10:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:10:50 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20061218.011050.92570987.davem@davemloft.net> To: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, dhowells@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, matthew@wil.cx, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1166432184.25827.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <457F606B.70805@yahoo.com.au> <1166432184.25827.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 727 Lines: 18 From: David Woodhouse Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:56:24 +0000 > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares > > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. > > This fixes drivers/connector/connector.c to cope... > > Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse I have a fix for this already in my net-2.6 tree and I'll push it later tonight. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/