From: Ivan Vecera > Sent: 29 July 2016 18:53 > Change type of bna_id to atomic_t. The bnad_list_mutex is used to prevent > a race when bna_id is incremented. After the change the mutex can be > removed in the next step. ... > -static u32 bna_id; > +static atomic_t bna_id; ... > bnad_lock_init(bnad); > bnad_add_to_list(bnad); > + bnad->id = atomic_inc_return(&bna_id) - 1; ...
Is the 'id' expected to be unique?
Looks like they get reallocated after 2^32 allocates.
David
