On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, J. Hannken-Illjes wrote:
Well, it almost works! Just one little problem... :)
For some reason, the device's open() routine is being called twice, but the
close() routine is only called once. So every iteration leaves the refcount
with a net increment of one.
I cannot figure out why/how the open routine is called twice.
IIRC the device open() operation gets called on every open while
the device close() operation gets called on last close only.
See misfs/specfs/spec_vnops.c::spec_close().
yes, that would certainly explain the situation. It does, however, make
it rather difficult to maintain a valid ref-count!
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