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authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-03-31 15:34:58 -0500
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-03-31 15:34:58 -0500
commit86579dd06deecfa6ac88d5e84e4d63c397cd6f6d (patch)
treeb4475d3ccde53015ad84a06e4e55e64591171b75 /lib/kref.c
parent7ea9ea832212c4a755650f7c7cc1ff0b63292a41 (diff)
parenta0f067802576d4eb4c65d40b8ee7d6ea3c81dd61 (diff)
Merge branch 'master'
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kref.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/kref.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kref.c b/lib/kref.c
index 0d07cc31c818..4a467faf1367 100644
--- a/lib/kref.c
+++ b/lib/kref.c
@@ -52,7 +52,12 @@ int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release)(struct kref *kref))
WARN_ON(release == NULL);
WARN_ON(release == (void (*)(struct kref *))kfree);
- if (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount)) {
+ /*
+ * if current count is one, we are the last user and can release object
+ * right now, avoiding an atomic operation on 'refcount'
+ */
+ if ((atomic_read(&kref->refcount) == 1) ||
+ (atomic_dec_and_test(&kref->refcount))) {
release(kref);
return 1;
}