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2012-01-17Fix compile breakage with kref.hJames Bottomley
This set of build failures just started appearing on parisc: In file included from drivers/input/serio/serio_raw.c:12: include/linux/kref.h: In function 'kref_get': include/linux/kref.h:40: error: 'TAINT_WARN' undeclared (first use in this function) include/linux/kref.h:40: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once include/linux/kref.h:40: error: for each function it appears in.) include/linux/kref.h: In function 'kref_sub': include/linux/kref.h:65: error: 'TAINT_WARN' undeclared (first use in this function) It happens because TAINT_WARN is defined in kernel.h and this particular compile doesn't seem to include it (no idea why it's just manifesting .. probably some #include file untangling exposed it). Fix by adding #include <linux/kernel.h> to linux/kref.h Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-14kref: fix up the kfree build problemsGreg Kroah-Hartman
It turns out that some memory allocators use kobjects, which use krefs, and kref.h was wanting to figure out the address of kfree(), which ended up in a loop. kfree was only being needed for a warning to tell the caller that they were doing something stupid. Now we just move that warning into the comments for the functions, which results in a bit more fun as everyone enjoys digging for people to mock at times of boredom. So, remove the dependancy of slab.h on kref.h, and fix up the other include file as well (we really only need bug.h and atomic.h, not types.h). Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-12-13kref: Remove the memory barriersPeter Zijlstra
Commit 1b0b3b9980e ("kref: fix CPU ordering with respect to krefs") wrongly adds memory barriers to kref. It states: some atomic operations are only atomic, not ordered. Thus a CPU is allowed to reorder memory references to an object to before the reference is obtained. This fixes it. While true, it fails to show why this is a problem. I say it is not a problem because if there is a race with kref_put() such that we could end up referencing a free'd object without this memory barrier, we would still have that race with the memory barrier. The kref_put() in question could complete (and free the object) before the atomic_inc() and we'd still be up shit creek. The kref_init() case is even worse, if your object is published at this time you're so wrong the memory barrier won't make a difference what so ever. If its not published, the act of publishing should include the needed barriers/locks to make sure all writes prior to the act of publishing are complete such that others will only observe a complete object. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-12-13kref: Implement kref_put in terms of kref_subPeter Zijlstra
Less lines of code is better. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-12-13kref: Inline all functionsPeter Zijlstra
These are tiny functions, there's no point in having them out-of-line. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8eccvi2ur2fzgi00xdjlbf5z@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-22kref: Add a kref_sub functionThomas Hellstrom
Makes it possible to optimize batched multiple unrefs. Initial user will be drivers/gpu/ttm which accumulates unrefs to be processed outside of atomic code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2010-05-21kref: remove kref_setNeilBrown
Of the three uses of kref_set in the kernel: One really should be kref_put as the code is letting go of a reference, Two really should be kref_init because the kref is being initialised. This suggests that making kref_set available encourages bad code. So fix the three uses and remove kref_set completely. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-15kobj: kref.h incorrectly describes itself as kref.c.Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-26headers: kref.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan
* remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from kref.h -- not needed, linux/types.h is enough for atomic_t * remove linux/kref.h inclusion from files which do not need it. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headersRobert P. J. Day
Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor test. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-24kref: add kref_set()Evgeniy Polyakov
This adds kref_set() to the kref api for future use by people who really know what they are doing with krefs... From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!