linux-next/include/linux/kref.h
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) b76d32422c kref: Improve documentation
There is already kernel-doc written for many of the functions in kref.h
but it's not linked into the html docs anywhere.  Add it to kref.rst.

Improve the kref documentation by using the standard Return: section,
rewording some unclear verbiage and adding docs for some undocumented
functions.

Update Thomas' email address to his current one.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241209160953.757673-1-willy@infradead.org
2024-12-13 08:49:31 -07:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
/*
* kref.h - library routines for handling generic reference counted objects
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
* Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corp.
*
* based on kobject.h which was:
* Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
* Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Open Source Development Labs
*/
#ifndef _KREF_H_
#define _KREF_H_
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/refcount.h>
struct kref {
refcount_t refcount;
};
#define KREF_INIT(n) { .refcount = REFCOUNT_INIT(n), }
/**
* kref_init - initialize object.
* @kref: object in question.
*/
static inline void kref_init(struct kref *kref)
{
refcount_set(&kref->refcount, 1);
}
static inline unsigned int kref_read(const struct kref *kref)
{
return refcount_read(&kref->refcount);
}
/**
* kref_get - increment refcount for object.
* @kref: object.
*/
static inline void kref_get(struct kref *kref)
{
refcount_inc(&kref->refcount);
}
/**
* kref_put - Decrement refcount for object
* @kref: Object
* @release: Pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
* last reference to the object is released.
*
* Decrement the refcount, and if 0, call @release. The caller may not
* pass NULL or kfree() as the release function.
*
* Return: 1 if this call removed the object, otherwise return 0. Beware,
* if this function returns 0, another caller may have removed the object
* by the time this function returns. The return value is only certain
* if you want to see if the object is definitely released.
*/
static inline int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref))
{
if (refcount_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) {
release(kref);
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
/**
* kref_put_mutex - Decrement refcount for object
* @kref: Object
* @release: Pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
* last reference to the object is released.
* @mutex: Mutex which protects the release function.
*
* This variant of kref_lock() calls the @release function with the @mutex
* held. The @release function will release the mutex.
*/
static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref,
void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
struct mutex *mutex)
{
if (refcount_dec_and_mutex_lock(&kref->refcount, mutex)) {
release(kref);
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
/**
* kref_put_lock - Decrement refcount for object
* @kref: Object
* @release: Pointer to the function that will clean up the object when the
* last reference to the object is released.
* @lock: Spinlock which protects the release function.
*
* This variant of kref_lock() calls the @release function with the @lock
* held. The @release function will release the lock.
*/
static inline int kref_put_lock(struct kref *kref,
void (*release)(struct kref *kref),
spinlock_t *lock)
{
if (refcount_dec_and_lock(&kref->refcount, lock)) {
release(kref);
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
/**
* kref_get_unless_zero - Increment refcount for object unless it is zero.
* @kref: object.
*
* 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.
*
* Return: non-zero if the increment succeeded. Otherwise return 0.
*/
static inline int __must_check kref_get_unless_zero(struct kref *kref)
{
return refcount_inc_not_zero(&kref->refcount);
}
#endif /* _KREF_H_ */