utils: Add ref_cur() to retrieve the current value of a reference counter

On many architectures it is safe to read the value directly (those
using cache coherency protocols, and with atomic loads for 32-bit
values) but it is not if that's not the case or if we ever decide to
make refcount_t 64-bit (load not atomic on x86).

So make sure the operation is actually atomic and that users do not
have to care about the size of refcount_t.
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Tobias Brunner
2014-04-24 17:53:42 +02:00
parent 1dfd11fd92
commit efedd0d21e
2 changed files with 24 additions and 3 deletions
+13 -1
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@@ -528,7 +528,6 @@ refcount_t ref_get(refcount_t *ref)
pthread_mutex_lock(&ref_mutex);
current = ++(*ref);
pthread_mutex_unlock(&ref_mutex);
return current;
}
@@ -545,6 +544,19 @@ bool ref_put(refcount_t *ref)
return !more_refs;
}
/**
* Current refcount
*/
refcount_t ref_cur(refcount_t *ref)
{
refcount_t current;
pthread_mutex_lock(&ref_mutex);
current = *ref;
pthread_mutex_unlock(&ref_mutex);
return current;
}
/**
* Single mutex for all compare and swap operations.
*/