Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > Should mm->mm_users also be replaced by refcount_t? > > I'll say "yes". :) > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ > > > In addition, is it better to change all variables that use > > atomic_dec_and_test to control the release process to refconut_t? > > For the most part, yes. The following may find a lot of them: > scripts/coccinelle/api/atomic_as_refcounter.cocci
I've been gradually undoing some of the conversions as there's no equivalent of atomic_add_return() and atomic_dec_return() that allow me to log the altered refcount through a tracepoint. David
