[PATCH] files: rcuref APIs
authorDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:04:09 +0000 (13:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:57:54 +0000 (13:57 -0700)
commitc0dfb2905126e9e94edebbce8d3e05001301f52d
treedb31f15f7e5dea0c812992c2ca87a1151507ed9c
parent8b6490e5faafb3a16ea45654fb55f9ff086f1495
[PATCH] files: rcuref APIs

Adds a set of primitives to do reference counting for objects that are looked
up without locks using RCU.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/rcuref.h [new file with mode: 0644]
kernel/rcupdate.c