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multithread access to platform device driver


I am currently writing a platform device driver for embedded linux on ARM. What I've noticed is that a multithreaded application from user space can only access the driver one thread at a time, and never simultaneously regardless of separate file access in /dev/* to the driver.

The same driver (with modified probe()) targeted for x86 on PCIe works fine with multithreaded access to its functions.

Any idea why? Thanks.


Solution

  • This was actually an error in the user space application.