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Thomas Hellstrom c9cb68da74 kref: Implement kref_get_unless_zero v3

This function is intended to simplify locking around refcounting for
objects that can be looked up from a lookup structure, and which are
removed from that lookup structure in the object destructor.
Operations on such objects require at least a read lock around
lookup + kref_get, and a write lock around kref_put + remove from lookup
structure. Furthermore, RCU implementations become extremely tricky.
With a lookup followed by a kref_get_unless_zero *with return value check*
locking in the kref_put path can be deferred to the actual removal from
the lookup structure and RCU lookups become trivial.

v2: Formatting fixes.
v3: Invert the return value.

Change-Id: Ibcb524294c2cebe1d832e77714895822adc1c89a
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Git-commit: 4b20db3de8dab005b07c74161cb041db8c5ff3a7
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
[shrenujb@codeaurora.org: resolve trivial merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Shrenuj Bansal <shrenujb@codeaurora.org>

2013-09-06 16:15:39 -07:00