Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:37:05 +0200 | From | David Sterba <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] refcount: always allow checked forms |
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 06:49:46AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > > > Dave pointed out that it would be useful to be able to opt-in to full checks > > > regardless of CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL, so that we can simplify callsites where we > > > always want checks. I've spotted a few of these in code which is still awaiting > > > conversion. > > > > The motivation was code like > > > > WARN_ON(refcount_read(&ref)); > > if (refcount_dec_and_test(&ref)) { ... } > > > > so the warning is redundant for REFCOUNT_FULL, but I'm going to use the > > _checked versions everywhere the performance of refcounts is not > > critical. > > If you will have conversion patches, do you want to pick this up as the start > of a series?
The patches where I'd use the enhanced refcounts are nice-to-have and I don't have an ETA so it would be better if the patch gets merged independently. Thanks.
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