[Cluster-devel] [RFC 0/2] refcount: attempt to avoid imbalance warnings

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 6:59 AM Alexander Aring <aahringo at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I send this patch series as RFC because it was necessary to do a kref
> change after adding __cond_lock() to refcount_dec_and_lock()
> functionality.

Can you try something like this instead?

This is two separate patches - one for sparse, and one for the kernel.

This is only *very* lightly tested (ie I tested it on a single kernel
file that used refcount_dec_and_lock())

                Linus
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