On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 05:08:29PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Which bit are you objecting to? Wanting to use a refcount_t with 1 to > represent an otherwise-unreferenced object sat in a cache? Or wanting to > display accurate usage counts when tracing gets and puts of objects? Primarily the first, but also any feature creap of the refcount_t in general.