switch ->get_link() to delayed_call, kill ->put_link()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/delayed_call.h b/include/linux/delayed_call.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f7fa76ae1a9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/delayed_call.h
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#ifndef _DELAYED_CALL_H
+#define _DELAYED_CALL_H
+
+/*
+ * Poor man's closures; I wish we could've done them sanely polymorphic,
+ * but...
+ */
+
+struct delayed_call {
+	void (*fn)(void *);
+	void *arg;
+};
+
+#define DEFINE_DELAYED_CALL(name) struct delayed_call name = {NULL, NULL}
+
+/* I really wish we had closures with sane typechecking... */
+static inline void set_delayed_call(struct delayed_call *call,
+		void (*fn)(void *), void *arg)
+{
+	call->fn = fn;
+	call->arg = arg;
+}
+
+static inline void do_delayed_call(struct delayed_call *call)
+{
+	if (call->fn)
+		call->fn(call->arg);
+}
+
+static inline void clear_delayed_call(struct delayed_call *call)
+{
+	call->fn = NULL;
+}
+#endif