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Commit 5407a562 authored by Phil Carmody's avatar Phil Carmody Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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