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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dma-attrs.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kref.h | 21 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h index f83f793223ff..c8e1831d7572 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ enum dma_attr { DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT, DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING, DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC, + DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS, DMA_ATTR_MAX, }; diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h index 65af6887872f..4972e6e9ca93 100644 --- a/include/linux/kref.h +++ b/include/linux/kref.h @@ -111,4 +111,25 @@ static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref, } return 0; } + +/** + * kref_get_unless_zero - Increment refcount for object unless it is zero. + * @kref: object. + * + * Return non-zero if the increment succeeded. Otherwise return 0. + * + * 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. + */ +static inline int __must_check kref_get_unless_zero(struct kref *kref) +{ + return atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, 1, 0); +} #endif /* _KREF_H_ */ |