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1  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
2  /*
3   * kref.h - library routines for handling generic reference counted objects
4   *
5   * Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
6   * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corp.
7   *
8   * based on kobject.h which was:
9   * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
10   * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Open Source Development Labs
11   */
12  
13  #ifndef _KREF_H_
14  #define _KREF_H_
15  
16  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
17  #include <linux/refcount.h>
18  
19  struct kref {
20  	refcount_t refcount;
21  };
22  
23  #define KREF_INIT(n)	{ .refcount = REFCOUNT_INIT(n), }
24  
25  /**
26   * kref_init - initialize object.
27   * @kref: object in question.
28   */
kref_init(struct kref * kref)29  static inline void kref_init(struct kref *kref)
30  {
31  	refcount_set(&kref->refcount, 1);
32  }
33  
kref_read(const struct kref * kref)34  static inline unsigned int kref_read(const struct kref *kref)
35  {
36  	return refcount_read(&kref->refcount);
37  }
38  
39  /**
40   * kref_get - increment refcount for object.
41   * @kref: object.
42   */
kref_get(struct kref * kref)43  static inline void kref_get(struct kref *kref)
44  {
45  	refcount_inc(&kref->refcount);
46  }
47  
48  /**
49   * kref_put - decrement refcount for object.
50   * @kref: object.
51   * @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
52   *	     last reference to the object is released.
53   *	     This pointer is required, and it is not acceptable to pass kfree
54   *	     in as this function.
55   *
56   * Decrement the refcount, and if 0, call release().
57   * Return 1 if the object was removed, otherwise return 0.  Beware, if this
58   * function returns 0, you still can not count on the kref from remaining in
59   * memory.  Only use the return value if you want to see if the kref is now
60   * gone, not present.
61   */
kref_put(struct kref * kref,void (* release)(struct kref * kref))62  static inline int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref))
63  {
64  	if (refcount_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) {
65  		release(kref);
66  		return 1;
67  	}
68  	return 0;
69  }
70  
kref_put_mutex(struct kref * kref,void (* release)(struct kref * kref),struct mutex * lock)71  static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref,
72  				 void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
73  				 struct mutex *lock)
74  {
75  	if (refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock(&kref->refcount, lock)) {
76  		release(kref);
77  		return 1;
78  	}
79  	return 0;
80  }
81  
kref_put_lock(struct kref * kref,void (* release)(struct kref * kref),spinlock_t * lock)82  static inline int kref_put_lock(struct kref *kref,
83  				void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
84  				spinlock_t *lock)
85  {
86  	if (refcount_dec_and_lock(&kref->refcount, lock)) {
87  		release(kref);
88  		return 1;
89  	}
90  	return 0;
91  }
92  
93  /**
94   * kref_get_unless_zero - Increment refcount for object unless it is zero.
95   * @kref: object.
96   *
97   * Return non-zero if the increment succeeded. Otherwise return 0.
98   *
99   * This function is intended to simplify locking around refcounting for
100   * objects that can be looked up from a lookup structure, and which are
101   * removed from that lookup structure in the object destructor.
102   * Operations on such objects require at least a read lock around
103   * lookup + kref_get, and a write lock around kref_put + remove from lookup
104   * structure. Furthermore, RCU implementations become extremely tricky.
105   * With a lookup followed by a kref_get_unless_zero *with return value check*
106   * locking in the kref_put path can be deferred to the actual removal from
107   * the lookup structure and RCU lookups become trivial.
108   */
kref_get_unless_zero(struct kref * kref)109  static inline int __must_check kref_get_unless_zero(struct kref *kref)
110  {
111  	return refcount_inc_not_zero(&kref->refcount);
112  }
113  #endif /* _KREF_H_ */
114