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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2009-05-11 15:50:21 +1000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-05-11 12:10:54 +0200
commit615a3f1e055ac9b0ae74e1f935a12ea2cfe2a2ad (patch)
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parenta08b159fc243dbfe415250466d24cfc5010deee5 (diff)
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perf_counter: call atomic64_set for counter->count
A compile warning triggered because we are calling atomic_set(&counter->count). But since counter->count is an atomic64_t, we have to use atomic64_set. So the count can be set short, resulting in the reset ioctl only resetting the low word. [ Impact: clear counter properly during the reset ioctl ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <18951.48285.270311.981806@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/perf_counter.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 7373b96bc36c..5ea0240adab2 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@ static unsigned int perf_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
static void perf_counter_reset(struct perf_counter *counter)
{
(void)perf_counter_read(counter);
- atomic_set(&counter->count, 0);
+ atomic64_set(&counter->count, 0);
perf_counter_update_userpage(counter);
}