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linux/lib/average.c
Michael Dalton 03144b5869 lib: Ensure EWMA does not store wrong intermediate values 
To ensure ewma_read() without a lock returns a valid but possibly
out of date average, modify ewma_add() by using ACCESS_ONCE to prevent
intermediate wrong values from being written to avg->internal.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-16 23:46:06 -08:00

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