[PATCH 08/10] drm/radeon: replace pflip and sw_int counters with atomics

[Michel Dänzer]

On Fre, 2012-06-01 at 08:19 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: 
> 
> I think this might introduce a race condition:
> 
> Thread 0 Thread 1
> -------- --------
> atomic_inc_return() returns 1
> spin_lock_irqsave()
> atomic_dec_and_test()
> radeon_irq_set()
> 
> => the interrupt won't be enabled.

Hrmm, I messed up the formatting there, let me try one more time:

Thread 0				Thread 1
--------				--------
atomic_inc_return() returns 1
spin_lock_irqsave()
					atomic_dec_and_test()
radeon_irq_set()


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