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Refcnt is only ever accessed from either inside the coresight_mutex, or the device's spinlock, making the atomic type and atomic_dec_return() calls confusing and unnecessary. The only point of synchronisation outside of these two types of locks is already done with a compare and swap on 'mode', which a comment has been added for. There was one instance of refcnt being used outside of a lock in TPIU, but that can easily be fixed by making it the same as all the other devices and adding a spinlock. Potentially in the future all the refcounting and locking can be moved up into the core code, and all the mostly duplicate code from the individual devices can be removed. Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240129154050.569566-8-james.clark@arm.com Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.