Re: [PATCH] Generic percpu refcounting

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 03:26:45PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> This implements a refcount with similar semantics to
> atomic_get()/atomic_dec_and_test() - but percpu.
> 
> It also implements two stage shutdown, as we need it to tear down the
> percpu counts.  Before dropping the initial refcount, you must call
> percpu_ref_kill(); this puts the refcount in "shutting down mode" and
> switches back to a single atomic refcount with the appropriate barriers
> (synchronize_rcu()).
> 
> It's also legal to call percpu_ref_kill() multiple times - it only returns
> true once, so callers don't have to reimplement shutdown synchronization.
> 
> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweak]
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
> Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
> Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
> Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Applied to percpu/for-3.11.  Andrew, I removed your SOB as the patch
is routed outside -mm.  Please let me know if you want
reviewed/ackd-by added.

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu.git for-3.11

Thanks a lot!

-- 
tejun