Re: [2.6.29 PATCH 01/02] dm target: use module refcount directly

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Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@xxxxxxxxxx>

 brassow

On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:

From: Cheng Renquan <crquan@xxxxxxxxx>

The tt_internal's 'use' field is superfluous: the module's refcount can do the work properly. An acceptable side-effect is that this increases the
reference counts reported by 'lsmod'.

Remove the superfluous test when removing a target module.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-target.c |   20 +++-----------------
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.28/drivers/md/dm-target.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.28.orig/drivers/md/dm-target.c 2009-01-07 20:29:57.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.28/drivers/md/dm-target.c 2009-01-07 20:30:57.000000000 +0000
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ struct tt_internal {
	struct target_type tt;

	struct list_head list;
-	long use;
};

static LIST_HEAD(_targets);
@@ -44,12 +43,8 @@ static struct tt_internal *get_target_ty
	down_read(&_lock);

	ti = __find_target_type(name);
-	if (ti) {
-		if ((ti->use == 0) && !try_module_get(ti->tt.module))
-			ti = NULL;
-		else
-			ti->use++;
-	}
+	if (ti && !try_module_get(ti->tt.module))
+		ti = NULL;

	up_read(&_lock);
	return ti;
@@ -77,10 +72,7 @@ void dm_put_target_type(struct target_ty
	struct tt_internal *ti = (struct tt_internal *) t;

	down_read(&_lock);
-	if (--ti->use == 0)
-		module_put(ti->tt.module);
-
-	BUG_ON(ti->use < 0);
+	module_put(ti->tt.module);
	up_read(&_lock);

	return;
@@ -140,12 +132,6 @@ void dm_unregister_target(struct target_
		BUG();
	}

-	if (ti->use) {
-		DMCRIT("Attempt to unregister target still in use: %s",
-		       t->name);
-		BUG();
-	}
-
	list_del(&ti->list);
	kfree(ti);


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