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1 /*
2  * kref.h - library routines for handling generic reference counted objects
3  *
4  * Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
5  * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corp.
6  *
7  * based on kobject.h which was:
8  * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Patrick Mochel <[email protected]>
9  * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Open Source Development Labs
10  *
11  * This file is released under the GPLv2.
12  *
13  */
14 
15 #ifndef _KREF_H_
16 #define _KREF_H_
17 
18 #include <linux/bug.h>
19 #include <linux/atomic.h>
20 #include <linux/kernel.h>
21 #include <linux/mutex.h>
22 
23 struct kref {
24 	atomic_t refcount;
25 };
26 
27 #define KREF_INIT(n)	{ .refcount = ATOMIC_INIT(n), }
28 
29 /**
30  * kref_init - initialize object.
31  * @kref: object in question.
32  */
33 static inline void kref_init(struct kref *kref)
34 {
35 	atomic_set(&kref->refcount, 1);
36 }
37 
38 /**
39  * kref_get - increment refcount for object.
40  * @kref: object.
41  */
42 static inline void kref_get(struct kref *kref)
43 {
44 	/* If refcount was 0 before incrementing then we have a race
45 	 * condition when this kref is freeing by some other thread right now.
46 	 * In this case one should use kref_get_unless_zero()
47 	 */
48 	WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_inc_return(&kref->refcount) < 2);
49 }
50 
51 /**
52  * kref_sub - subtract a number of refcounts for object.
53  * @kref: object.
54  * @count: Number of recounts to subtract.
55  * @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
56  *	     last reference to the object is released.
57  *	     This pointer is required, and it is not acceptable to pass kfree
58  *	     in as this function.  If the caller does pass kfree to this
59  *	     function, you will be publicly mocked mercilessly by the kref
60  *	     maintainer, and anyone else who happens to notice it.  You have
61  *	     been warned.
62  *
63  * Subtract @count from the refcount, and if 0, call release().
64  * Return 1 if the object was removed, otherwise return 0.  Beware, if this
65  * function returns 0, you still can not count on the kref from remaining in
66  * memory.  Only use the return value if you want to see if the kref is now
67  * gone, not present.
68  */
69 static inline int kref_sub(struct kref *kref, unsigned int count,
70 	     void (*release)(struct kref *kref))
71 {
72 	WARN_ON(release == NULL);
73 
74 	if (atomic_sub_and_test((int) count, &kref->refcount)) {
75 		release(kref);
76 		return 1;
77 	}
78 	return 0;
79 }
80 
81 /**
82  * kref_put - decrement refcount for object.
83  * @kref: object.
84  * @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
85  *	     last reference to the object is released.
86  *	     This pointer is required, and it is not acceptable to pass kfree
87  *	     in as this function.  If the caller does pass kfree to this
88  *	     function, you will be publicly mocked mercilessly by the kref
89  *	     maintainer, and anyone else who happens to notice it.  You have
90  *	     been warned.
91  *
92  * Decrement the refcount, and if 0, call release().
93  * Return 1 if the object was removed, otherwise return 0.  Beware, if this
94  * function returns 0, you still can not count on the kref from remaining in
95  * memory.  Only use the return value if you want to see if the kref is now
96  * gone, not present.
97  */
98 static inline int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref))
99 {
100 	return kref_sub(kref, 1, release);
101 }
102 
103 static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref,
104 				 void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
105 				 struct mutex *lock)
106 {
107 	WARN_ON(release == NULL);
108 	if (unlikely(!atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, -1, 1))) {
109 		mutex_lock(lock);
110 		if (unlikely(!atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount))) {
111 			mutex_unlock(lock);
112 			return 0;
113 		}
114 		release(kref);
115 		return 1;
116 	}
117 	return 0;
118 }
119 
120 /**
121  * kref_get_unless_zero - Increment refcount for object unless it is zero.
122  * @kref: object.
123  *
124  * Return non-zero if the increment succeeded. Otherwise return 0.
125  *
126  * This function is intended to simplify locking around refcounting for
127  * objects that can be looked up from a lookup structure, and which are
128  * removed from that lookup structure in the object destructor.
129  * Operations on such objects require at least a read lock around
130  * lookup + kref_get, and a write lock around kref_put + remove from lookup
131  * structure. Furthermore, RCU implementations become extremely tricky.
132  * With a lookup followed by a kref_get_unless_zero *with return value check*
133  * locking in the kref_put path can be deferred to the actual removal from
134  * the lookup structure and RCU lookups become trivial.
135  */
136 static inline int __must_check kref_get_unless_zero(struct kref *kref)
137 {
138 	return atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, 1, 0);
139 }
140 #endif /* _KREF_H_ */
141