[120/272] kref: add kref_test_and_get

Greg KH
2011-02-16T01:31:55Z

From: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>

commit e4a683c899cd5a49f8d684a054c95bd115a0c005 upstream.

Add kref_test_and_get() function, which atomically add a reference only if
refcount is not zero. This prevent to add a reference to an object that is
already being removed.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
include/linux/kref.h | 1 +
lib/kref.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct kref {

void kref_init(struct kref *kref);
void kref_get(struct kref *kref);
+int kref_test_and_get(struct kref *kref);
int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));

#endif /* _KREF_H_ */
--- a/lib/kref.c
+++ b/lib/kref.c
@@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ void kref_get(struct kref *kref)
}

/**
+ * kref_test_and_get - increment refcount for object only if refcount is not
+ * zero.
+ * @kref: object.
+ *
+ * Return non-zero if the refcount was incremented, 0 otherwise
+ */
+int kref_test_and_get(struct kref *kref)
+{
+ return atomic_inc_not_zero(&kref->refcount);
+}
+
+/**
* kref_put - decrement refcount for object.
* @kref: object.
* @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the