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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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