kernel-fxtec-pro1x/include/linux/kref.h
Jerome Marchand e4a683c899 kref: add kref_test_and_get
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>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-01-05 16:57:37 +01:00

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/*
* kref.h - library routines for handling generic reference counted objects
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
* Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corp.
*
* based on kobject.h which was:
* Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
* Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Open Source Development Labs
*
* This file is released under the GPLv2.
*
*/
#ifndef _KREF_H_
#define _KREF_H_
#include <linux/types.h>
struct kref {
atomic_t refcount;
};
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_ */