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1 /*
2  * kref.c - 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 #ifdef __KERNEL__
19 
20 #include <linux/types.h>
21 #include <asm/atomic.h>
22 
23 struct kref {
24 	atomic_t refcount;
25 };
26 
27 void kref_set(struct kref *kref, int num);
28 void kref_init(struct kref *kref);
29 void kref_get(struct kref *kref);
30 int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
31 
32 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
33 #endif /* _KREF_H_ */
34