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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2016-11-14 17:29:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-01-14 11:37:18 +0100 |
| commit | 2c935bc57221cc2edc787c72ea0e2d30cdcd3d5e (patch) | |
| tree | 4ccb975ac9142887b4e7e7bf1c0cca5c53d4cf99 /include/linux/kref.h | |
| parent | 1e24edca0557dba6486d39d3c24c288475432bcf (diff) | |
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.h | 5 |
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. |