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    lockref: add 'lockref_get_or_lock() helper · b3abd802
    Linus Torvalds authored
    
    
    This behaves like "lockref_get_not_zero()", but instead of doing nothing
    if the count was zero, it returns with the lock held.
    
    This allows callers to revalidate the lockref-protected data structure
    if required even if the count was zero to begin with, and possibly
    increment the count if it passes muster.
    
    In particular, the dentry code wants this when it wants to turn an
    RCU-protected dentry into a stable refcounted one: if the dentry count
    it zero, but the sequence number still validates the dentry, we can take
    a reference to it.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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