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| author | Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> | 2016-10-02 17:46:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> | 2016-10-02 22:50:21 -0700 |
| commit | 433c0e04bc06da6d049c691a9ef238d61edb841c (patch) | |
| tree | 8eed5266b333c8f65775284f3c69b3a6895b37d5 /Documentation/remoteproc.txt | |
| parent | 229b85a6a54d7eef81ba307d60a589cc232f06d1 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-433c0e04bc06da6d049c691a9ef238d61edb841c.tar.gz lwn-433c0e04bc06da6d049c691a9ef238d61edb841c.zip | |
remoteproc: Split driver and consumer dereferencing
In order to be able to lock a rproc driver implementations only when
used by a client, we must differ between the dereference operation of a
client and the implementation itself.
This patch brings no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/remoteproc.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/remoteproc.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/remoteproc.txt b/Documentation/remoteproc.txt index ef0219fa4bb4..f07597482351 100644 --- a/Documentation/remoteproc.txt +++ b/Documentation/remoteproc.txt @@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ int dummy_rproc_example(struct rproc *my_rproc) On success, the new rproc is returned, and on failure, NULL. Note: _never_ directly deallocate @rproc, even if it was not registered - yet. Instead, when you need to unroll rproc_alloc(), use rproc_put(). + yet. Instead, when you need to unroll rproc_alloc(), use rproc_free(). - void rproc_put(struct rproc *rproc) + void rproc_free(struct rproc *rproc) - Free an rproc handle that was allocated by rproc_alloc. This function essentially unrolls rproc_alloc(), by decrementing the rproc's refcount. It doesn't directly free rproc; that would happen @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ int dummy_rproc_example(struct rproc *my_rproc) has completed successfully. After rproc_del() returns, @rproc is still valid, and its - last refcount should be decremented by calling rproc_put(). + last refcount should be decremented by calling rproc_free(). Returns 0 on success and -EINVAL if @rproc isn't valid. |