Since we need to change the implementation, stop exposing internals. Provide KREF_INIT() to allow static initialization of struct kref. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c | 2 +- fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 2 +- include/linux/kref.h | 2 ++ init/version.c | 4 +--- kernel/pid.c | 4 +--- 5 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_bitmap.c @@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ static int bm_rw(struct drbd_device *dev .done = 0, .flags = flags, .error = 0, - .kref = { ATOMIC_INIT(2) }, + .kref = KREF_INIT(2), }; if (!get_ldev_if_state(device, D_ATTACHING)) { /* put is in drbd_bm_aio_ctx_destroy() */ --- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h +++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ struct fuse_io_priv { #define FUSE_IO_PRIV_SYNC(f) \ { \ - .refcnt = { ATOMIC_INIT(1) }, \ + .refcnt = KREF_INIT(1), \ .async = 0, \ .file = f, \ } --- a/include/linux/kref.h +++ b/include/linux/kref.h @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ struct kref { atomic_t refcount; }; +#define KREF_INIT(n) { .refcount = ATOMIC_INIT(n), } + /** * kref_init - initialize object. * @kref: object in question. --- a/init/version.c +++ b/init/version.c @@ -23,9 +23,7 @@ int version_string(LINUX_VERSION_CODE); #endif struct uts_namespace init_uts_ns = { - .kref = { - .refcount = ATOMIC_INIT(2), - }, + .kref = KREF_INIT(2), .name = { .sysname = UTS_SYSNAME, .nodename = UTS_NODENAME, --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -68,9 +68,7 @@ static inline int mk_pid(struct pid_name * the scheme scales to up to 4 million PIDs, runtime. */ struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns = { - .kref = { - .refcount = ATOMIC_INIT(2), - }, + .kref = KREF_INIT(2), .pidmap = { [ 0 ... PIDMAP_ENTRIES-1] = { ATOMIC_INIT(BITS_PER_PAGE), NULL } },