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| author | Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> | 2012-11-06 11:31:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-04-16 21:27:26 -0700 |
| commit | e3a55052f4773105dbd23f72dec4aeac82dea871 (patch) | |
| tree | 287ba056309faab0f819fa03b74f6770430d5b49 /kernel/sysctl_binary.c | |
| parent | 7077c66b3ab3a1d336648cf88f54df43709ebac3 (diff) | |
kref: Implement kref_get_unless_zero v3
commit 4b20db3de8dab005b07c74161cb041db8c5ff3a7 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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