From 7d742075120deb831c7b94c268ca20d409e91d60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:10:13 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] percpu-refcount: use unsigned long for pcpu_count pointer percpu_ref->pcpu_count is a percpu pointer with a status flag in its lowest bit. As such, it always goes through arithmetic operations which is very cumbersome to do on a pointer. It has to be first casted to unsigned long and then back. Let's just make the field unsigned long so that we can skip the first casts. While at it, rename it to pcpu_counter_ptr to clarify that it's a pointer value. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Christoph Lameter --- Reading git-format-patch failed