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>
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