mm: introduce page_ref_sub_return()
authorJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2020 04:05:18 +0000 (21:05 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 2 Apr 2020 16:35:27 +0000 (09:35 -0700)
commit566d774a1187245c65a9d4be778930e676df3c07
treeae9ae2a712b13d17bfca51b7540075b1c10a1835
parent86dfbed49f88fd87ce8a12d2314b1f93266da7a7
mm: introduce page_ref_sub_return()

An upcoming patch requires subtracting a large chunk of refcounts from a
page, and checking what the resulting refcount is.  This is a little
different than the usual "check for zero refcount" that many of the page
ref functions already do.  However, it is similar to a few other routines
that (like this one) are generally useful for things such as 1-based
refcounting.

Add page_ref_sub_return(), that subtracts a chunk of refcounts atomically,
and returns an atomic snapshot of the result.

Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211001536.1027652-4-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/page_ref.h