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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001/*
2 * kref.c - library routines for handling generic reference counted objects
3 *
4 * Copyright (C) 2004 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
5 * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corp.
6 *
7 * based on kobject.h which was:
8 * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
9 * Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Open Source Development Labs
10 *
11 * This file is released under the GPLv2.
12 *
13 */
14
15#ifndef _KREF_H_
16#define _KREF_H_
17
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070018#include <linux/types.h>
19#include <asm/atomic.h>
20
21struct kref {
22 atomic_t refcount;
23};
24
Evgeniy Polyakov41ca28a2007-12-10 23:03:43 +030025void kref_set(struct kref *kref, int num);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070026void kref_init(struct kref *kref);
27void kref_get(struct kref *kref);
28int kref_put(struct kref *kref, void (*release) (struct kref *kref));
29
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070030#endif /* _KREF_H_ */