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SubjectRe: [PATCH v12 15/17] counter: Implement events_queue_size sysfs attribute
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On 7/10/21 5:25 AM, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
>> and after that
>>
>> [ 16.564403] ================================================
>> [ 16.570725] WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!
>> [ 16.577044] 5.13.0-next-20210706+ #4 Not tainted
>> [ 16.582198] ------------------------------------------------
>> [ 16.588507] cat/331 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
>> [ 16.595214] 1 lock held by cat/331:
>> [ 16.599103] #0: ffff888102bb3630
>> (&counter->chrdev_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: counter_chrdev_open+0x21/0x60
>> [counter]
>>
>> Jarkko
> I'm not sure how to resolve this warning. The purpose of this lock is to
> limit chrdev to a single open at a time. To accomplish this I grab this
> lock in counter_chrdev_open() and hold it until counter_chrdev_release()
> is called. Is there a better way to accomplish this?

How about using an atomic flag, e.g test_and_set_bit()?

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