On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:44:55PM +0100, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > > Actually not - I have to set reference counter to something other than 1
> > > > or +/- 1, and thus will have to call kref_get() in a loop, which is a
> > > > very ugly step. Is there kref_set() or somethinglike that? At least not
> > > > in 2.6.22 what I'm using for now.
> > >
> > > Yeah, a loop would look pretty ugly. How about just adding kref_set(),
> > > if you need it.
> >
> > Well, then it distributed storage will not be able to build as
> > standalone module, and kref_set() itself will not be accepted as a single
> > patch, since there are no in-kernel users :)
> > It is easily doable though.
>
> Most rules have exceptions. :) Send a patch, so we can see how it looks
> like.
It looks really non-trivial :)
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index 6fee353..5d18563 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ struct kref {
atomic_t refcount;
};
+void kref_set(struct kref *kref, int num);
void kref_init(struct kref *kref);
void kref_get(struct kref *kref);
int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
diff --git a/lib/kref.c b/lib/kref.c
index a6dc3ec..40aa9f9 100644
--- a/lib/kref.c
+++ b/lib/kref.c
@@ -15,13 +15,23 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
/**
+ * kref_set - initialize object and set refcount to requested number.
+ * @kref: object in question.
+ * @num: initial reference counter
+ */
+void kref_set(struct kref *kref, int num)
+{
+ atomic_set(&kref->refcount, num);
+ smp_mb();
+}
+
+/**
* kref_init - initialize object.
* @kref: object in question.
*/
void kref_init(struct kref *kref)
{
- atomic_set(&kref->refcount,1);
- smp_mb();
+ kref_set(kref, 1);
}
/**
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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