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From: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add refcount type and refcount misuse debugging
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Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan <at> gmail.com> writes:

[snip]

> Enter _refcnt_t (non-atomic version), refcnt_t (atomic version) datatypes
> and CONFIG_DEBUG_REFCNT config option.

Is kref_t not appropriate to fill this niche?

cheers!
will