On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 02:44:40PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > counter_atomic* is introduced to be used when a variable is used as > a simple counter and doesn't guard object lifetimes. This clearly > differentiates atomic_t usages that guard object lifetimes. > > counter_atomic* variables will wrap around to 0 when it overflows and > should not be used to guard resource lifetimes, device usage and > open counts that control state changes, and pm states. > > atomic_t variables used for stats are atomic counters. Overflow will > wrap around and reset the stats and no change with the conversion. > > Convert them to use counter_atomic32. > > Reviewed-by: Corey Minyard <cminy...@mvista.com> > Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <sk...@linuxfoundation.org>
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