linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] md: raid5: use refcount_t for reference counting instead atomic

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Date:   Thu, 24 May 2018 09:14:13 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] md: raid5: use refcount_t for reference counting
 instead atomic_t

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:22:39PM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> I don't know what is changed in the refcount, such raid5 change has attempted
> before and didn't work. 0 for the stripe count is a valid usage and we do
> inc-from-zero in several places.

Nothing much has changed with refcount; and the above does indeed still
appear to be an issue. Thanks for confirming.