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authorBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>2015-10-22 16:02:14 -0700
committerNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>2015-11-28 19:33:29 -0800
commit3a66d7dca186ebdef9b0bf55e216778fa598062c (patch)
tree5269e0da221dc9a976e1e35f71068cd949822827 /include/linux/kref.h
parent9ff9d15eddd13ecdd41876c5e1f31ddbb127101c (diff)
kref: Remove kref_put_spinlock_irqsave()
The last user is gone. Hence remove this function. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kref.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kref.h33
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index 484604d184be..e15828fd71f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
-#include <linux/spinlock.h>
struct kref {
atomic_t refcount;
@@ -99,38 +98,6 @@ static inline int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref)
return kref_sub(kref, 1, release);
}
-/**
- * kref_put_spinlock_irqsave - decrement refcount for object.
- * @kref: object.
- * @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
- * last reference to the object is released.
- * This pointer is required, and it is not acceptable to pass kfree
- * in as this function.
- * @lock: lock to take in release case
- *
- * Behaves identical to kref_put with one exception. If the reference count
- * drops to zero, the lock will be taken atomically wrt dropping the reference
- * count. The release function has to call spin_unlock() without _irqrestore.
- */
-static inline int kref_put_spinlock_irqsave(struct kref *kref,
- void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
- spinlock_t *lock)
-{
- unsigned long flags;
-
- WARN_ON(release == NULL);
- if (atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, -1, 1))
- return 0;
- spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
- if (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) {
- release(kref);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
- return 1;
- }
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
- return 0;
-}
-
static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref,
void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
struct mutex *lock)