linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 87/91] locking/atomic, kref: Add kref

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Date:   Wed,  1 Apr 2020 18:18:23 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 87/91] locking/atomic, kref: Add kref_read()

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

commit 2c935bc57221cc2edc787c72ea0e2d30cdcd3d5e upstream.

Since we need to change the implementation, stop exposing internals.

Provide kref_read() to read the current reference count; typically
used for debug messages.

Kills two anti-patterns:

	atomic_read(&kref->refcount)
	kref->refcount.counter

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
[only add kref_read() to kref.h for stable backports - gregkh]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/kref.h |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ static inline void kref_init(struct kref
 	atomic_set(&kref->refcount, 1);
 }

+static inline int kref_read(const struct kref *kref)
+{
+	return atomic_read(&kref->refcount);
+}
+
 /**
  * kref_get - increment refcount for object.
  * @kref: object.