On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 02:29:56PM +0100, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: > Agree that if refcount is used as a lock to prevent inner loops from > amending the list then it is the same. But I think Chris is trying to > do more - i.e. allow an inner loop to amend the list. That might > simply not be possible to handle safely. We have to do something more (or something less :)) otherwise the refcount can only be used to detect a problem. In other words, having a situation like "OK, I can't safely do XYZ here" is maybe better than the current situation but doesn't help when you need to do XYZ. -- Luc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
