From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:57:38 -0300 (BRT)
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> Please fix the atomic_t assumptions in init_page_count() first.
> You should be using atomic_set(...).
Why ? You'll see init_page_count() is _only_ used from
free_area_init_core(), when nothing else is using the VM
yet.
Rik, not every architecture has a "counter" member of
atomic_t, that is the problem. This is a hard bug, please
fix it. It is an opaque type, accessing its' implementation
directly is therefore illegal in the strongest way possible.
This exact same code has been in -rmap for a few months
and went into 2.5 just over a week ago. It doesn't seem
to give any problems ...
Because I haven't pushed my sparc64 changesets yet, I'm doing
that tonight.
Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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