Re: [PATCH 2/6] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock

From: Laurent Dufour
Date: Thu Apr 13 2017 - 04:08:09 EST


On 06/04/2017 18:50, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Apr 2017, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>
>> How is 'seqnum' wrapping handled here ?
>> I'd rather see something like time_before() here, isn't it ?
>
> Its a 64bit counter, no overflows.

I should have miss something, what prevents this 64bit counter to not
overflow ?
At some point of time, this counter could reach ~0UL and then 0UL, which
is breaking this check.