mm: introduce page_ref_sub_return()

An upcoming patch requires subtracting a large chunk of refcounts from a
page, and checking what the resulting refcount is.  This is a little
different than the usual "check for zero refcount" that many of the page
ref functions already do.  However, it is similar to a few other routines
that (like this one) are generally useful for things such as 1-based
refcounting.

Add page_ref_sub_return(), that subtracts a chunk of refcounts atomically,
and returns an atomic snapshot of the result.

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ira Weiny <[email protected]>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/page_ref.h b/include/linux/page_ref.h
index 14d14beb1f7f..d27701199a4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_ref.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_ref.h
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ static inline void page_ref_sub(struct page *page, int nr)
 		__page_ref_mod(page, -nr);
 }
 
+static inline int page_ref_sub_return(struct page *page, int nr)
+{
+	int ret = atomic_sub_return(nr, &page->_refcount);
+
+	if (page_ref_tracepoint_active(__tracepoint_page_ref_mod_and_return))
+		__page_ref_mod_and_return(page, -nr, ret);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static inline void page_ref_inc(struct page *page)
 {
 	atomic_inc(&page->_refcount);