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authorThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>2012-11-06 11:31:49 +0000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2012-11-20 16:15:02 +1000
commit4b20db3de8dab005b07c74161cb041db8c5ff3a7 (patch)
tree894e7d485b2e5d2b1ae0652b55dcd0f3f249fe8b /include/linux/kref.h
parentd7144556195ab04a148e722a93103da5438bdf78 (diff)
kref: Implement kref_get_unless_zero v3
This function is intended to simplify locking around refcounting for objects that can be looked up from a lookup structure, and which are removed from that lookup structure in the object destructor. Operations on such objects require at least a read lock around lookup + kref_get, and a write lock around kref_put + remove from lookup structure. Furthermore, RCU implementations become extremely tricky. With a lookup followed by a kref_get_unless_zero *with return value check* locking in the kref_put path can be deferred to the actual removal from the lookup structure and RCU lookups become trivial. v2: Formatting fixes. v3: Invert the return value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index 65af6887872f..4972e6e9ca93 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -111,4 +111,25 @@ static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref,
}
return 0;
}
+
+/**
+ * kref_get_unless_zero - Increment refcount for object unless it is zero.
+ * @kref: object.
+ *
+ * Return non-zero if the increment succeeded. Otherwise return 0.
+ *
+ * This function is intended to simplify locking around refcounting for
+ * objects that can be looked up from a lookup structure, and which are
+ * removed from that lookup structure in the object destructor.
+ * Operations on such objects require at least a read lock around
+ * lookup + kref_get, and a write lock around kref_put + remove from lookup
+ * structure. Furthermore, RCU implementations become extremely tricky.
+ * With a lookup followed by a kref_get_unless_zero *with return value check*
+ * locking in the kref_put path can be deferred to the actual removal from
+ * the lookup structure and RCU lookups become trivial.
+ */
+static inline int __must_check kref_get_unless_zero(struct kref *kref)
+{
+ return atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, 1, 0);
+}
#endif /* _KREF_H_ */