From 5407a56257b6ade44fd9bcac972c99845b7413cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phil Carmody Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:42:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: remove unnecessary use of atomic The bottom 4 hunks are atomically changing memory to which there are no aliases as it's freshly allocated, so there's no need to use atomic operations. The other hunks are just atomic_read and atomic_set, and do not involve any read-modify-write. The use of atomic_{read,set} doesn't prevent a read/write or write/write race, so if a race were possible (I'm not saying one is), then it would still be there even with atomic_set. See: http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/13/atomic-cargo-cults/ Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Daisuke Nishimura Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed