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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Refcounting of objects part of a lockfree collection
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:23:50AM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> 
> The attatched patch provides infrastructure for refcounting of objects
> in a rcu protected collection.

This is really close to the kref implementation.  Why not just use that
instead?

Oh, and I think you need to use atomic_set() instead of initializing the
atomic_t by hand.

thanks,

greg k-h