percpu: implement generic percpu refcounting
authorKent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Fri, 31 May 2013 22:26:45 +0000 (15:26 -0700)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Mon, 3 Jun 2013 22:36:41 +0000 (15:36 -0700)
commit215e262f2aeba378aa192da07c30770f9925a4bf
treec854461e40f3ce9dde45f7128679b20a362643f8
parent042dd60ca6dec9a02cefa8edd67de386e35755d6
percpu: implement generic percpu refcounting

This implements a refcount with similar semantics to
atomic_get()/atomic_dec_and_test() - but percpu.

It also implements two stage shutdown, as we need it to tear down the
percpu counts.  Before dropping the initial refcount, you must call
percpu_ref_kill(); this puts the refcount in "shutting down mode" and
switches back to a single atomic refcount with the appropriate
barriers (synchronize_rcu()).

It's also legal to call percpu_ref_kill() multiple times - it only
returns true once, so callers don't have to reimplement shutdown
synchronization.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweak]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
include/linux/percpu-refcount.h [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/Makefile
lib/percpu-refcount.c [new file with mode: 0644]