Re: Introduce atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 05:45:28PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> This series introduces atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() and converts a few
> users to use it. They were using local_irq_save() +
> atomic_dec_and_lock() before that series.

Should not all these users be converted to refcount_t, and thus, should
we not introduce refcount_dec_and_lock_irqsave() instead?