counting, and it works such that once the counter falls to zero it can
be guaranteed that no other entity can be accessing the object:
-static void obj_list_add(struct obj *obj)
+static void obj_list_add(struct obj *obj, struct list_head *head)
{
obj->active = 1;
- list_add(&obj->list);
+ list_add(&obj->list, head);
}
static void obj_list_del(struct obj *obj)
obj->active update does.
As a historical note, 32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of
-24-bits of it's atomic_t type. This was because it used 8 bits
+24-bits of its atomic_t type. This was because it used 8 bits
as a spinlock for SMP safety. Sparc32 lacked a "compare and swap"
type instruction. However, 32-bit Sparc has since been moved over
to a "hash table of spinlocks" scheme, that allows the full 32-bit