Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jan 2011 07:57:34 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kref: add kref_test_and_get |
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:43:22PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> wrote: > > Add kref_test_and_get() function, which atomically add a reference only if > > refcount is not zero. This prevent to add a reference to an object that is > > already being removed. > > Is kref supposed to be used only for "toy" structures where you aren't > expected to do get possibly dead object?
Of course not, have you read the kref documentation?
{sigh}
Why do we even write these things if no one reads them...
greg k-h
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