--- compat-drivers-3.8-1-u/include/linux/compat-3.8.h.orig 2013-05-16 20:35:27.046386772 +0200 +++ compat-drivers-3.8-1-u/include/linux/compat-3.8.h 2013-05-16 20:35:39.219767618 +0200 @@ -24,35 +24,6 @@ /* This backports: * - * commit 4b20db3de8dab005b07c74161cb041db8c5ff3a7 - * Author: Thomas Hellstrom - * Date: Tue Nov 6 11:31:49 2012 +0000 - * - * kref: Implement kref_get_unless_zero v3 - */ -/** - * kref_get_unless_zero - Increment refcount for object unless it is zero. - * @kref: object. - * - * Return non-zero if the increment succeeded. Otherwise return 0. - * - * This function is intended to simplify locking around refcounting for - * objects that can be looked up from a lookup structure, and which are - * removed from that lookup structure in the object destructor. - * Operations on such objects require at least a read lock around - * lookup + kref_get, and a write lock around kref_put + remove from lookup - * structure. Furthermore, RCU implementations become extremely tricky. - * With a lookup followed by a kref_get_unless_zero *with return value check* - * locking in the kref_put path can be deferred to the actual removal from - * the lookup structure and RCU lookups become trivial. - */ -static inline int __must_check kref_get_unless_zero(struct kref *kref) -{ - return atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, 1, 0); -} - -/* This backports: - * * commit 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f * Author: Matt Fleming * Date: Wed Nov 14 09:42:35 2012 +0000