On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:16:55AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 06:39:48PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Since we need to change the implementation, stop exposing internals. > > > > Provide kref_read() to read the current reference count; typically > > used for debug messages. > > Can we just provide a printk specifier for a kref value instead as > that is the only valid use case for reading the value?
Yeah, that would be great as no one should be doing anything logic-related based on the kref value. thanks, greg k-h
