Fix incorrect open count check in release function #4
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After using
insmodto insert the module, we open three terminals A, B, C.In terminal C, use the following command to observe the info messages:
In terminal A, B, we both use the following command:
Then, they print out the characters that are produced respectively.
Then, we kill terminal B. We will find that, in terminal A, it stops producing any character as well.
At this time, observing the terminal C, we will find that the reference count is 1, but the producer doesn't produce characters anymore.
It is because the producer will stop producing characters when
atomic_dec_and_test(&open_cnt)returns zero insimrupt_release.Reading the comment of
atomic_dec_and_test,we will find that it will return true if the resulting value of the variable is zero.Therefore, if we want producer to stop producing characters when the
open_cntbecomes zero, we should do the following change.As the result, it works normally.