On 10/09, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> writes: > > >> Someone is abusing something here, please don't change the kref api to > >> work around someone using it improperly. > >> > >> So no, please don't apply this at all. > > > > Because this is wrong or because not kosher? > > Oleg it is easy enough to not use the unnecesary kref abstraction. > > We can directly use atomic_dec_and_test. Since the pid namespace no > longer fits into the narrow confines of the kref abstraction there is > no need to use it.
Ah OK. I misunderstood Greg as if he nacked the attempt to dec kref->refcount without kref_put(release). I agree we can do this without the new helper. And anyway Cyrill sent v2. Thanks, Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
