equivalent of
	mutex_lock(mutex);
	if (!kref_put(kref, release))
		mutex_unlock(mutex);
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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: NJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NStephen 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: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Commit 1b0b3b99 ("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: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8eccvi2ur2fzgi00xdjlbf5z@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

We can't use krefs since it's apparently restricted to very basic
reference counting.

This reverts commit e4a683c8.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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.
Signed-off-by: NJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

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: NThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

* 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: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in
linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor
test.
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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!