From 18eac1cc100fa2afd5f39085aae6b694e417734b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:58:29 -0700 Subject: tty-ldisc: make refcount be atomic_t 'users' count This is pure preparation of changing the ldisc reference counting to be a true refcount that defines the lifetime of the ldisc. But this is a purely syntactic change for now to make the next steps easier. This patch should make no semantic changes at all. But I wanted to make the ldisc refcount be an atomic (I will be touching it without locks soon enough), and I wanted to rename it so that there isn't quite as much confusion between 'ldo->refcount' (ldisk operations refcount) and 'ld->refcount' (ldisc refcount itself) in the same file. So it's now an atomic 'ld->users' count. It still starts at zero, despite having a reference from 'tty->ldisc', but that will change once we turn it into a _real_ refcount. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Tested-by: OGAWA Hirofumi Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/tty_ldisc.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h index 40f38d896777..0c4ee9b88f85 100644 --- a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h +++ b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ struct tty_ldisc_ops { struct tty_ldisc { struct tty_ldisc_ops *ops; - int refcount; + atomic_t users; }; #define TTY_LDISC_MAGIC 0x5403 -- cgit v1.2.2