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authorJerome Marchand <[email protected]>2011-01-05 16:57:37 +0100
committerJens Axboe <[email protected]>2011-01-05 16:57:37 +0100
commite4a683c899cd5a49f8d684a054c95bd115a0c005 (patch)
treec7e79e24199a5ed34a488b06cfd3fa890637db7d /include/linux
parenta6e8dc46ff0b7defbfa4f29a71aee263377ec573 (diff)
kref: add kref_test_and_get
Add kref_test_and_get() function, which atomically add a reference only if refcount is not zero. This prevent to add a reference to an object that is already being removed. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kref.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index 6cc38fc07ab7..90b9e44abf54 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct kref {
void kref_init(struct kref *kref);
void kref_get(struct kref *kref);
+int kref_test_and_get(struct kref *kref);
int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
#endif /* _KREF_H_ */