On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted text
>  +
>  +static s64 cpu_cgroup_read_stat(struct cpu_cgroup_stat *stat,
>  +               enum cpu_cgroup_stat_index idx)
>  +{
>  +       int cpu;
>  +       s64 ret = 0;
>  +       for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
>  +               ret += stat->cpustat[cpu].count[idx];

On a 32-bit architecture I think this could race with a non-atomic
update that crosses a 32-bit boundary and get a corrupted result.

Paul
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