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Commit 4b20db3d authored by Thomas Hellstrom's avatar Thomas Hellstrom Committed by Dave Airlie
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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.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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