Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2.6.37-rc5-tip 4/20] 4: uprobes: Adding andremove a uprobe in a rb tree.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 25 2011 - 07:15:44 EST


On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:28 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> +/* Should be called lock-less */
> +static void put_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe)
> +{
> + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&uprobe->ref))
> + kfree(uprobe);
> +}

Since this instantly frees the uprobe once ref hits 0, the
atomic_inc_not_zero() in find_uprobe() doesn't really make sense does
it?
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