mm: remove unnecessary use of atomic
authorPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 21:42:42 +0000 (14:42 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:12:43 +0000 (09:12 -0700)
commit5407a56257b6ade44fd9bcac972c99845b7413cd
tree833a55856af25fe9be5e8a871d89f43677eac512
parentdf64f81bb1e01cbef967a96642dacf208acb7e72
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 <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c