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SubjectRe: [PATH -mm -v2] Fix a race condtion of oops_in_progress

* Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> wrote:

> Fix a race condition accessing oops_in_progress. Which may be
> changed on multiple CPU simultaneously, but it is changed via
> non-atomic operation ++/--. This patch changes the definition of
> oops_in_process from int to atomic_t, and accessing method to atomic
> operations.
>
>
> ChangeLog
>
> v2:
>
> - Includes fixes from Andrew Moton.
>
> - Re-based on Matthew Wilcox's new atomic_t patch.

hm, there are a couple of places now that do atomic_set(,1) - they
should be atomic_inc(), correct?

Ingo


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