Re: [PATCH] Add refcount type and refcount misuse debugging

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Will Drewry <wad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

Of course, no!
kref is atomic only, kref mandates separate destructor.
bug_on's should be added there, though.
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