Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:26:54 +0200 (IST) | From | Dan Aloni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH (2.4)] atomic use count for proc_dir_entry |
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote:
> > I'm not (yet) a kernel guru, so just point and laugh if I'm wrong, but... > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote: > > - if (!--de->count) { > > + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&de->count)) { > > Doesn't this reverse the sense of the test?
If you are right, I guess put_files_struct() of kernel/exit.c would have cleaned files_struct everytime someones called it. Everywhere in the kernel, objects are freed when atomic_dec_and_test() returns true.
-- Dan Aloni dax@karrde.org
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