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| author | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2009-01-02 16:17:13 +0300 |
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| committer | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2009-01-02 16:17:13 +0300 |
| commit | b21a207141d83a06abc5f492b80204602e02ca44 (patch) | |
| tree | f0152cde543008c72d7eb5c12c18095ad92785e6 /Documentation/filesystems/files.txt | |
| parent | 3af373021fa32f8f787bfbdcc1a9277a287bde4e (diff) | |
| parent | b58602a4bac012b5f4fc12fe6b46ab237b610d5d (diff) | |
| download | linux-b21a207141d83a06abc5f492b80204602e02ca44.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-upstream
Conflicts:
drivers/uwb/wlp/eda.c
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 bb0142f61084..ac2facc50d2a 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(). |