[PATCH] coresight: Drop atomics in connection refcounts

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Wed Dec 11 02:20:02 PST 2024


On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:14:14 +0000, James Clark wrote:
> These belong to the device being enabled or disabled and are only ever
> used inside the device's spinlock. Remove the atomics to not imply that
> there are any other concurrent accesses.
> 
> If atomics were necessary I don't think they would have been enough
> anyway. There would be nothing to prevent an enable or disable running
> concurrently if not for the spinlock.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] coresight: Drop atomics in connection refcounts
      https://git.kernel.org/coresight/c/5aec7c065fba0c56d6c1ea5d629395210f174be8

Best regards,
-- 
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>



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