1/* 2 * kref.c - library routines for handling generic reference counted objects 3 * 4 * Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> 5 * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corp. 6 * 7 * based on lib/kobject.c which was: 8 * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org> 9 * 10 * This file is released under the GPLv2. 11 * 12 */ 13 14/* #define DEBUG */ 15 16#include <linux/kref.h> 17#include <linux/module.h> 18 19/** 20 * kref_init - initialize object. 21 * @kref: object in question. 22 * @release: pointer to a function that will clean up the object 23 * when the last reference to the object is released. 24 * This pointer is required. 25 */ 26void kref_init(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref)) 27{ 28 WARN_ON(release == NULL); 29 atomic_set(&kref->refcount,1); 30 kref->release = release; 31} 32 33/** 34 * kref_get - increment refcount for object. 35 * @kref: object. 36 */ 37struct kref *kref_get(struct kref *kref) 38{ 39 WARN_ON(!atomic_read(&kref->refcount)); 40 atomic_inc(&kref->refcount); 41 return kref; 42} 43 44/** 45 * kref_put - decrement refcount for object. 46 * @kref: object. 47 * 48 * Decrement the refcount, and if 0, call kref->release(). 49 */ 50void kref_put(struct kref *kref) 51{ 52 if (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) { 53 pr_debug("kref cleaning up\n"); 54 kref->release(kref); 55 } 56} 57 58EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_init); 59EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_get); 60EXPORT_SYMBOL(kref_put); 61

