Re: [PATCH 1/5] sched: convert sighand_struct.count to refcount_t

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Hi Elena,

[...]

> **Important note for maintainers:
> 
> Some functions from refcount_t API defined in lib/refcount.c
> have different memory ordering guarantees than their atomic
> counterparts.
> The full comparison can be seen in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/15/57 and it is hopefully soon
> in state to be merged to the documentation tree.

Just a remark to point out that that document got merged, even though
in a different location/format: c.f.,

  b6e859f6cdd1 ("docs: refcount_t documentation")

  Andrea



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