kref: Implement kref_get_unless_zero v3

commit 4b20db3de8dab005b07c74161cb041db8c5ff3a7 upstream.

This function is intended to simplify locking around refcounting for
objects that can be looked up from a lookup structure, and which are
removed from that lookup structure in the object destructor.
Operations on such objects require at least a read lock around
lookup + kref_get, and a write lock around kref_put + remove from lookup
structure. Furthermore, RCU implementations become extremely tricky.
With a lookup followed by a kref_get_unless_zero *with return value check*
locking in the kref_put path can be deferred to the actual removal from
the lookup structure and RCU lookups become trivial.

v2: Formatting fixes.
v3: Invert the return value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust context
 - Add #include <linux/atomic.h>]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index d4a62ab2ee5e..d0645026c895 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #define _KREF_H_
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/atomic.h>
 
 struct kref {
 	atomic_t refcount;
@@ -27,4 +28,24 @@ int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
 int kref_sub(struct kref *kref, unsigned int count,
 	     void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
 
+/**
+ * kref_get_unless_zero - Increment refcount for object unless it is zero.
+ * @kref: object.
+ *
+ * Return non-zero if the increment succeeded. Otherwise return 0.
+ *
+ * This function is intended to simplify locking around refcounting for
+ * objects that can be looked up from a lookup structure, and which are
+ * removed from that lookup structure in the object destructor.
+ * Operations on such objects require at least a read lock around
+ * lookup + kref_get, and a write lock around kref_put + remove from lookup
+ * structure. Furthermore, RCU implementations become extremely tricky.
+ * With a lookup followed by a kref_get_unless_zero *with return value check*
+ * locking in the kref_put path can be deferred to the actual removal from
+ * the lookup structure and RCU lookups become trivial.
+ */
+static inline int __must_check kref_get_unless_zero(struct kref *kref)
+{
+	return atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, 1, 0);
+}
 #endif /* _KREF_H_ */