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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-11-14 17:29:48 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-01-14 11:37:18 +0100
commit2c935bc57221cc2edc787c72ea0e2d30cdcd3d5e (patch)
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parentlocking/atomic, kref: Add KREF_INIT() (diff)
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locking/atomic, kref: Add kref_read()
Since we need to change the implementation, stop exposing internals. Provide kref_read() to read the current reference count; typically used for debug messages. Kills two anti-patterns: atomic_read(&kref->refcount) kref->refcount.counter Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kref.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kref.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index 9af255ad1e2f..7c88d865f82f 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ static inline void kref_init(struct kref *kref)
atomic_set(&kref->refcount, 1);
}
+static inline int kref_read(const struct kref *kref)
+{
+ return atomic_read(&kref->refcount);
+}
+
/**
* kref_get - increment refcount for object.
* @kref: object.