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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] kref improvements
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:39:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This series unfscks kref and then implements it in terms of refcount_t.
>
> x86_64-allyesconfig compile tested and boot tested with my regular config.
>
> refcount_t is as per the previous thread, it BUGs on over-/underflow and
> saturates at UINT_MAX, such that if we ever overflow, we'll never free again.
>
>

Thanks so much for doing these, at the very least, I want to take the
kref-abuse-fixes now as those users shouldn't be doing those foolish
things. Any objection for me taking some of them through my tree now?

thanks,

greg k-h

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