linux/include
Linus Torvalds 88b1a17dfc mm: add 'try_get_page()' helper function
This is the same as the traditional 'get_page()' function, but instead
of unconditionally incrementing the reference count of the page, it only
does so if the count was "safe".  It returns whether the reference count
was incremented (and is marked __must_check, since the caller obviously
has to be aware of it).

Also like 'get_page()', you can't use this function unless you already
had a reference to the page.  The intent is that you can use this
exactly like get_page(), but in situations where you want to limit the
maximum reference count.

The code currently does an unconditional WARN_ON_ONCE() if we ever hit
the reference count issues (either zero or negative), as a notification
that the conditional non-increment actually happened.

NOTE! The count access for the "safety" check is inherently racy, but
that doesn't matter since the buffer we use is basically half the range
of the reference count (ie we look at the sign of the count).

Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-04-14 10:00:04 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-12-26 17:03:51 -08:00
asm-generic Rename include/{uapi => }/asm-generic/shmparam.h really 2019-02-12 16:33:18 -08:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: skcipher - remove remnants of internal IV generators 2018-12-23 11:52:45 +08:00
drm Merge tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2019-01-11' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel into drm-fixes 2019-01-11 10:26:21 +01:00
dt-bindings ARM: SoC fixes for linux-5.0 2019-02-08 16:23:41 -08:00
keys KEYS: user: Align the payload buffer 2019-02-22 10:11:19 -08:00
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Make vgic_cpu->ap_list_lock a raw_spinlock 2019-01-24 15:09:09 +01:00
linux mm: add 'try_get_page()' helper function 2019-04-14 10:00:04 -07:00
math-emu
media media fixes for v4.20-rc8 2018-12-25 13:11:30 -08:00
memory
misc
net ipv4: Add ICMPv6 support when parse route ipproto 2019-03-01 16:41:27 -08:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma RDMA/device: Expose ib_device_try_get(() 2019-01-21 14:33:08 -07:00
scsi 4.21 merge window pull request 2018-12-28 14:57:10 -08:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates 2018-12-31 17:32:35 -08:00
sound ALSA: compress: Fix stop handling on compressed capture streams 2019-02-05 22:01:41 +01:00
target
trace afs: Fix race in async call refcounting 2019-01-17 15:17:28 +00:00
uapi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-02-15 08:00:11 -08:00
video drm/exynos: fimd: Make pixel blend mode configurable 2018-12-14 15:46:15 +09:00
xen arm64/xen: fix xen-swiotlb cache flushing 2019-01-23 22:14:56 +01:00