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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-08-03 10:58:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-08-04 13:46:30 -0700 |
| commit | 18eac1cc100fa2afd5f39085aae6b694e417734b (patch) | |
| tree | 52ac69ef9832c77a0c6865f9eff39dd4f287776e /include | |
| parent | a33a052f19a21d727847391c8c1aff3fb221c472 (diff) | |
tty-ldisc: make refcount be atomic_t 'users' count
This is pure preparation of changing the ldisc reference counting to be
a true refcount that defines the lifetime of the ldisc. But this is a
purely syntactic change for now to make the next steps easier.
This patch should make no semantic changes at all. But I wanted to make
the ldisc refcount be an atomic (I will be touching it without locks
soon enough), and I wanted to rename it so that there isn't quite as
much confusion between 'ldo->refcount' (ldisk operations refcount) and
'ld->refcount' (ldisc refcount itself) in the same file.
So it's now an atomic 'ld->users' count. It still starts at zero,
despite having a reference from 'tty->ldisc', but that will change once
we turn it into a _real_ refcount.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/tty_ldisc.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h index 40f38d89677..0c4ee9b88f8 100644 --- a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h +++ b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ struct tty_ldisc_ops { struct tty_ldisc { struct tty_ldisc_ops *ops; - int refcount; + atomic_t users; }; #define TTY_LDISC_MAGIC 0x5403 |