On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 18:41 +0530, Kedar Sovani wrote: > when the last atomic_dec_and_test() (the last == the one which > returns 0) is being called on the object, the object is usually not > accessible to others (list_del()) and hence the simultaneous > atomic_inc() call never occurs.
Yes, a reference count must count references. Of course, you can get around with with "atomic_dec_and_lock", but I hate that primitive as it has scalability issues (it can't be translated to RCU). I'll look and see if I can make this requirement explicit. Thanks! Rusty. -- A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
