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Message-ID: <20071210195145.GA29132@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:51:45 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [1/4] DST: Distributed storage documentation.

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:44:55PM +0100, Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@...y.org) wrote:
> > > > Actually not - I have to set reference counter to something other than 1
> > > > or +/- 1, and thus will have to call kref_get() in a loop, which is a
> > > > very ugly step. Is there kref_set() or somethinglike that? At least not
> > > > in 2.6.22 what I'm using for now.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, a loop would look pretty ugly. How about just adding kref_set(),
> > > if you need it.
> > 
> > Well, then it distributed storage will not be able to build as
> > standalone module, and kref_set() itself will not be accepted as a single 
> > patch, since there are no in-kernel users :)
> > It is easily doable though.
> 
> Most rules have exceptions. :) Send a patch, so we can see how it looks
> like.

It looks really non-trivial :)

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>

diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index 6fee353..5d18563 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ struct kref {
 	atomic_t refcount;
 };
 
+void kref_set(struct kref *kref, int num);
 void kref_init(struct kref *kref);
 void kref_get(struct kref *kref);
 int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
diff --git a/lib/kref.c b/lib/kref.c
index a6dc3ec..40aa9f9 100644
--- a/lib/kref.c
+++ b/lib/kref.c
@@ -15,13 +15,23 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 
 /**
+ * kref_set - initialize object and set refcount to requested number.
+ * @kref: object in question.
+ * @num: initial reference counter
+ */
+void kref_set(struct kref *kref, int num)
+{
+	atomic_set(&kref->refcount, num);
+	smp_mb();
+}
+
+/**
  * kref_init - initialize object.
  * @kref: object in question.
  */
 void kref_init(struct kref *kref)
 {
-	atomic_set(&kref->refcount,1);
-	smp_mb();
+	kref_set(kref, 1);
 }
 
 /**

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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