# \[PATCH 08/46\] Staging: hv: storvsc: Get rid of release\_stor\_device() by inlining the code

- From: K. Y. Srinivasan \<hidden\>
- Date: 2011-08-27 18:12:07 
- List: virtualization
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/virtualization/2011/08/3757936
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/lkml/2011/08/3757954/t.md

```text
Get rid of release_stor_device() by inlining the code.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c |   19 ++-----------------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
index 0f8c609..1976a34 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc.c
@@ -67,21 +67,6 @@ static inline struct storvsc_device *get_in_stor_device(
 	return stor_device;
 }
 
-/* Drop ref count to 1 to effectively disable get_out_stor_device() */
-static inline struct storvsc_device *release_stor_device(
-					struct hv_device *device)
-{
-	struct storvsc_device *stor_device;
-
-	stor_device = (struct storvsc_device *)device->ext;
-
-	/* Busy wait until the ref drop to 2, then set it to 1 */
-	while (atomic_cmpxchg(&stor_device->ref_count, 2, 1) != 2)
-		udelay(100);
-
-	return stor_device;
-}
-
 /* Drop ref count to 0. No one can use stor_device object. */
 static inline struct storvsc_device *final_release_stor_device(
 			struct hv_device *device)
@@ -401,8 +386,8 @@ int storvsc_dev_remove(struct hv_device *device)
 	struct storvsc_device *stor_device;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-
-	stor_device = release_stor_device(device);
+	stor_device = (struct storvsc_device *)device->ext;
+	atomic_dec(&stor_device->ref_count);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&device->channel->inbound_lock, flags);
 	stor_device->destroy = true;
-- 
1.7.4.1
```
