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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] kref: Implement using refcount_t
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 03:14:41PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > Provide refcount_t, an atomic_t like primitive built just for
> > refcounting.
> >
> > It provides overflow and underflow checks as well as saturation
> > semantics such that when it overflows, we'll never attempt to free it
> > again, ever.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
>
> Hi!
>
> I see the other 6 patches from this series are in -next, but the
> refcount_t implementation is still missing. What's needed to land this
> in -next? It's blocking sending the atomic_t -> refcount_t patches,
> which will likely all go through various maintainers, so we need to
> have refcount_t first. :)

Nothing much, except lack of time. I spend the last several days hunting
bugs, that trumps new features on my todo list.

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