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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:51:00 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/genalloc: use try_cmpxchg in {set,clear}_bits_ll
To:     Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 4:11 PM Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On another point how to end up dealing with lockref less, I have to
> note glibc switched fstat(fd, buf) to use newfstatat(fd, "", buf,
> AT_EMPTY_PATH) internally.

Yeah, that's just plain stupid.

I don't know what the thinking (or rather, lack-thereof) was inside
glibc for that one.

              Linus