Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return functions

From	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return functions
Date	2017-09-05 08:50 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 05:08:29PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Which bit are you objecting to?  Wanting to use a refcount_t with 1 to
> represent an otherwise-unreferenced object sat in a cache?  Or wanting to
> display accurate usage counts when tracing gets and puts of objects?

Primarily the first, but also any feature creap of the refcount_t in
general.

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[RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return  functions David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-09-01 17:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return  functions Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-01 18:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return functions David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-09-01 23:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return  functions Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-02 00:00 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return  functions Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-02 00:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return functions David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-09-02 01:00 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return  functions Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-09-04 09:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return  functions Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-09-04 17:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return functions David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2017-09-04 18:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 02/11] refcount: Implement inc/decrement-and-return  functions Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-09-05 08:50 +0200

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