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On 2018/06/27 2:03, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> There are a lot of ways it could be made concurrency safe.  If you need
> me to do this, please do let me know.
> 
> That said, the way it is now written, if you invoke rcu_oom_notify()
> twice in a row, the second invocation will wait until the memory from
> the first invocation is freed.  What do you want me to do if you invoke
> me concurrently?
> 
> 1.	One invocation "wins", waits for the earlier callbacks to
> 	complete, then encourages any subsequent callbacks to be
> 	processed more quickly.  The other invocations return
> 	immediately without doing anything.
> 
> 2.	The invocations serialize, with each invocation waiting for
> 	the callbacks from previous invocation (in mutex_lock() order
> 	or some such), and then starting a new round.
> 
> 3.	Something else?
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul

As far as I can see,

-	atomic_set(&oom_callback_count, 1);
+	atomic_inc(&oom_callback_count);

should be sufficient.