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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2014-11-10 09:29:29 +1030
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-11-11 17:07:46 +1030
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tree871fdf31787639112af15e3532bb6617660f2e47 /include
parent0286b5ea125e58b4797747f688949c05394412e8 (diff)
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module: Replace module_ref with atomic_t refcnt
Replace module_ref per-cpu complex reference counter with an atomic_t simple refcnt. This is for code simplification. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/module.h16
-rw-r--r--include/trace/events/module.h2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 71f282a4e307..ebfb0e153c6a 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -210,20 +210,6 @@ enum module_state {
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, /* Still setting it up. */
};
-/**
- * struct module_ref - per cpu module reference counts
- * @incs: number of module get on this cpu
- * @decs: number of module put on this cpu
- *
- * We force an alignment on 8 or 16 bytes, so that alloc_percpu()
- * put @incs/@decs in same cache line, with no extra memory cost,
- * since alloc_percpu() is fine grained.
- */
-struct module_ref {
- unsigned long incs;
- unsigned long decs;
-} __attribute((aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long))));
-
struct module {
enum module_state state;
@@ -367,7 +353,7 @@ struct module {
/* Destruction function. */
void (*exit)(void);
- struct module_ref __percpu *refptr;
+ atomic_t refcnt;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS
diff --git a/include/trace/events/module.h b/include/trace/events/module.h
index 7c5cbfe3fc49..81c4c183d348 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/module.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/module.h
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(module_refcnt,
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->ip = ip;
- __entry->refcnt = __this_cpu_read(mod->refptr->incs) - __this_cpu_read(mod->refptr->decs);
+ __entry->refcnt = atomic_read(&mod->refcnt);
__assign_str(name, mod->name);
),