Re: [PATCH] removes filp_count_lock and changes nr_files type to atomic_t

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:17:23AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >But that's not true.  You need to write you own sysctl handler for it,
> >probably worth adding a generic atomic_t sysctl handler while you're
> >at it.
> >
> 
> I checked linux-2.6.13-rc7 tree, and atomic_read() is just a wrapper to 
> read v->counter.

That doesn't matter.  atomic_t is an opaqueue type and you must use the
atomic_* interfaces to access it.
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