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| author | merge <null@invalid> | 2009-01-22 13:55:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Andy Green <agreen@octopus.localdomain> | 2009-01-22 13:55:32 +0000 |
| commit | aa6f5ffbdba45aa8e19e5048648fc6c7b25376d3 (patch) | |
| tree | fbb786d0ac6f8a774fd834e9ce951197e60fbffa /Documentation/filesystems/files.txt | |
| parent | f2d78193eae5dccd3d588d2c8ea0866efc368332 (diff) | |
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MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-hist-fix-stray-endmenu-patch
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From: Andy Green <andy@openmoko.com>
fix-stray-endmenu.patch
Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@openmoko.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/files.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/files.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt index bb0142f6108..ac2facc50d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt @@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ the fdtable structure - 5. Handling of the file structures is special. Since the look-up of the fd (fget()/fget_light()) are lock-free, it is possible that look-up may race with the last put() operation on the - file structure. This is avoided using atomic_inc_not_zero() + file structure. This is avoided using atomic_long_inc_not_zero() on ->f_count : rcu_read_lock(); file = fcheck_files(files, fd); if (file) { - if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count)) + if (atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count)) *fput_needed = 1; else /* Didn't get the reference, someone's freed */ @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ the fdtable structure - .... return file; - atomic_inc_not_zero() detects if refcounts is already zero or + atomic_long_inc_not_zero() detects if refcounts is already zero or goes to zero during increment. If it does, we fail fget()/fget_light(). |