Re: System crash in tcp_fragment()

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

> That's not the problem.  We use per-cpu values for each counter (and
> when the user asks for the value, we add together the values from
> each processor).

At least on x86 gcc usually seems to just generate an incl, which should
be ok because it is atomic enough (even when a reschedule happens it will 
act as a full memory barrier)

So it'll likely just be a problem for load-store architectures.


-Andi