Usage counts are common and useful, so for now they should stay as-is and if people can came up with a useful primitive for them we can consider implementing it.
Trying to shoe-horn everything into refcount_t is a horrible idea.
- [RFC][PATCH 00/10] On inode::i_count and the usage vs re... Peter Zijlstra
- Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] On inode::i_count and the us... Christoph Hellwig
- Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] On inode::i_count and th... Peter Zijlstra
- Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/10] On inode::i_count and th... David Windsor
- [RFC][PATCH 05/10] fs: Remove iput_final() Peter Zijlstra
- [RFC][PATCH 06/10] fs: Rework i_count Peter Zijlstra
- [RFC][PATCH 04/10] fs: Restructure iput() Peter Zijlstra
- [RFC][PATCH 01/10] fs: Use lockdep_assert_held() in... Peter Zijlstra
- [RFC][PATCH 02/10] fs: Avoid looking at i_count wit... Peter Zijlstra
- Re: [RFC][PATCH 02/10] fs: Avoid looking at i_c... Peter Zijlstra
- [RFC][PATCH 10/10] fs: Convert i_count over to refc... Peter Zijlstra
