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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-02-14 11:55:18 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-02-14 11:55:18 +0100 |
commit | d2137d5af4259f50c19addb8246a186c9ffac325 (patch) | |
tree | 2f7e309f9cf8ef2f2698532c226edda38021fe69 /lib/kref.c | |
parent | f005fe12b90c5b9fe180a09209a893e09affa8aa (diff) | |
parent | 795abaf1e4e188c4171e3cd3dbb11a9fcacaf505 (diff) |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/bootmem
Conflicts:
arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c
Merge reason: fix the conflict, update to latest -rc and pick up this
dependent fix from Yinghai:
e6d2e2b2b1e1: memblock: don't adjust size in memblock_find_base()
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kref.c')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/kref.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kref.c b/lib/kref.c index d3d227a08a4b..3efb882b11db 100644 --- a/lib/kref.c +++ b/lib/kref.c @@ -62,6 +62,36 @@ int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref)) return 0; } + +/** + * kref_sub - subtract a number of refcounts for object. + * @kref: object. + * @count: Number of recounts to subtract. + * @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. + * + * Subtract @count from the refcount, and if 0, call release(). + * Return 1 if the object was removed, otherwise return 0. Beware, if this + * function returns 0, you still can not count on the kref from remaining in + * memory. Only use the return value if you want to see if the kref is now + * gone, not present. + */ +int kref_sub(struct kref *kref, unsigned int count, + void (*release)(struct kref *kref)) +{ + WARN_ON(release == NULL); + WARN_ON(release == (void (*)(struct kref *))kfree); + + if (atomic_sub_and_test((int) count, &kref->refcount)) { + release(kref); + return 1; + } + return 0; +} + EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_init); EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_get); EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_put); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_sub); |