kernel-ark/include/linux/file.h
Al Viro d7065da038 get rid of the magic around f_count in aio
__aio_put_req() plays sick games with file refcount.  What
it wants is fput() from atomic context; it's almost always
done with f_count > 1, so they only have to deal with delayed
work in rare cases when their reference happens to be the
last one.  Current code decrements f_count and if it hasn't
hit 0, everything is fine.  Otherwise it keeps a pointer
to struct file (with zero f_count!) around and has delayed
work do __fput() on it.

Better way to do it: use atomic_long_add_unless( , -1, 1)
instead of !atomic_long_dec_and_test().  IOW, decrement it
only if it's not the last reference, leave refcount alone
if it was.  And use normal fput() in delayed work.

I've made that atomic_long_add_unless call a new helper -
fput_atomic().  Drops a reference to file if it's safe to
do in atomic (i.e. if that's not the last one), tells if
it had been able to do that.  aio.c converted to it, __fput()
use is gone.  req->ki_file *always* contributes to refcount
now.  And __fput() became static.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:03:07 -04:00

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/*
* Wrapper functions for accessing the file_struct fd array.
*/
#ifndef __LINUX_FILE_H
#define __LINUX_FILE_H
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/posix_types.h>
struct file;
extern void fput(struct file *);
extern void drop_file_write_access(struct file *file);
struct file_operations;
struct vfsmount;
struct dentry;
struct path;
extern struct file *alloc_file(struct path *, fmode_t mode,
const struct file_operations *fop);
static inline void fput_light(struct file *file, int fput_needed)
{
if (unlikely(fput_needed))
fput(file);
}
extern struct file *fget(unsigned int fd);
extern struct file *fget_light(unsigned int fd, int *fput_needed);
extern void set_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd, int flag);
extern void put_filp(struct file *);
extern int alloc_fd(unsigned start, unsigned flags);
extern int get_unused_fd(void);
#define get_unused_fd_flags(flags) alloc_fd(0, (flags))
extern void put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd);
extern void fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file *file);
#endif /* __LINUX_FILE_H */