On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote: > There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api > is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical > counters and not for managing object lifetime. We already have something in Linux called a sequence counter, and it's different from this. ID counter? instance number? monotonic_t? stat_t?
