module: Replace module_ref with atomic_t refcnt
Replace module_ref per-cpu complex reference counter with
an atomic_t simple refcnt. This is for code simplification.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 71f282a..ebfb0e1 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -210,20 +210,6 @@
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, /* Still setting it up. */
};
-/**
- * struct module_ref - per cpu module reference counts
- * @incs: number of module get on this cpu
- * @decs: number of module put on this cpu
- *
- * We force an alignment on 8 or 16 bytes, so that alloc_percpu()
- * put @incs/@decs in same cache line, with no extra memory cost,
- * since alloc_percpu() is fine grained.
- */
-struct module_ref {
- unsigned long incs;
- unsigned long decs;
-} __attribute((aligned(2 * sizeof(unsigned long))));
-
struct module {
enum module_state state;
@@ -367,7 +353,7 @@
/* Destruction function. */
void (*exit)(void);
- struct module_ref __percpu *refptr;
+ atomic_t refcnt;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS