From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, keescook@chromium.org,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, peterz@infradead.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Introduce seqnum_ops
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 04:33:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201111043304.GS17076@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1605027593.git.skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
> is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical
> counters and not for managing object lifetime.
We already have something in Linux called a sequence counter, and it's
different from this. ID counter? instance number? monotonic_t? stat_t?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-11 4:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 19:53 [PATCH 00/13] Introduce seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 01/13] seqnum_ops: Introduce Sequence Number Ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 20:41 ` Greg KH
2020-11-10 20:43 ` Greg KH
2020-11-11 0:18 ` Kees Cook
2020-11-11 19:23 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-12 12:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-12 16:17 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-12 16:45 ` Greg KH
2020-11-12 16:59 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-12 21:27 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-17 12:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-10 21:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-10 22:58 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-11 0:20 ` Kees Cook
2020-11-11 15:42 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-11 8:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 15:56 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-11 16:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 17:34 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-11 17:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-11 18:28 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-11 20:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-11-12 13:29 ` Greg KH
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 02/13] selftests:lib:test_seqnum_ops: add new test for seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 03/13] drivers/acpi: convert seqno seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 04/13] drivers/acpi/apei: convert seqno to seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 05/13] drivers/base/test/test_async_driver_probe: convert to use seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 06/13] drivers/char/ipmi: convert stats " Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 07/13] drivers/edac: convert pci counters to seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 08/13] drivers/oprofile: convert stats to use seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 09/13] drivers/staging/rtl8723bs: " Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 10/13] usb: usbip/vhci: convert seqno to seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 11/13] drivers/staging/rtl8188eu: convert stats to use seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 12/13] drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba: " Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 20:42 ` Greg KH
2020-11-10 21:02 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 13/13] security/integrity/ima: converts stats to seqnum_ops Shuah Khan
2020-11-10 20:44 ` [PATCH 00/13] Introduce seqnum_ops Alan Stern
2020-11-10 22:42 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-11 4:33 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-11-11 16:03 ` Shuah Khan
2020-11-11 16:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
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