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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/lockref.h')
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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/lockref.h b/include/linux/lockref.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ca07b5028b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/lockref.h @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +#ifndef __LINUX_LOCKREF_H +#define __LINUX_LOCKREF_H + +/* + * Locked reference counts. + * + * These are different from just plain atomic refcounts in that they + * are atomic with respect to the spinlock that goes with them. In + * particular, there can be implementations that don't actually get + * the spinlock for the common decrement/increment operations, but they + * still have to check that the operation is done semantically as if + * the spinlock had been taken (using a cmpxchg operation that covers + * both the lock and the count word, or using memory transactions, for + * example). + */ + +#include <linux/spinlock.h> + +struct lockref { + union { +#ifdef CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF + aligned_u64 lock_count; +#endif + struct { + spinlock_t lock; + unsigned int count; + }; + }; +}; + +extern void lockref_get(struct lockref *); +extern int lockref_get_not_zero(struct lockref *); +extern int lockref_get_or_lock(struct lockref *); +extern int lockref_put_or_lock(struct lockref *); + +#endif /* __LINUX_LOCKREF_H */ |