Commit 6dc21018 authored by Thomas Hellstrom's avatar Thomas Hellstrom Committed by Anshuman Dani
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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.

Change-Id: I391623ee7458428eab6d7f361630f8646d6790b0
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Git-commit: 4b20db3d
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git


[shrenujb@codeaurora.org: resolve trivial merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: default avatarShrenuj Bansal <shrenujb@codeaurora.org>
parent 8725bf63
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