Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] kref improvements

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:39:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This series unfscks kref and then implements it in terms of refcount_t.
> 
> x86_64-allyesconfig compile tested and boot tested with my regular config.
> 
> refcount_t is as per the previous thread, it BUGs on over-/underflow and
> saturates at UINT_MAX, such that if we ever overflow, we'll never free again.
> 
> 

Thanks so much for doing these, at the very least, I want to take the
kref-abuse-fixes now as those users shouldn't be doing those foolish
things.  Any objection for me taking some of them through my tree now?

thanks,

greg k-h