On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:25:31AM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > static DEFINE_MUTEX(foo_mutex);
> > static unsigned foo_devices;
> >
> > static int foo_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > {
> > int ret;
> >
> > mutex_lock(&foo_mutex);
> > if (foo_devices++ == 0)
> > uart_register_driver(&driver);
> >
> > ret = foo_really_probe_device(pdev);
>
> We have atomic_inc_and_test and atomic_dec_and_test so it's
> fractionally less ugly.
How do atomics help here? If we do this as:
if (atomic_inc_and_test(&foo_atomic))
uart_register_driver(&driver);
Then let's think about what can happen:
CPU0 CPU1
foo_probe
atomic_inc_and_test() == true
uart_register_driver
foo_probe
atomic_inc_and_test()
really_probe_foo()
*bang*
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