>Provide refcount_t, an atomic_t like primitive built just for refcounting. >It provides overflow and underflow checks as well as saturation semantics such >that when it overflows, we'll never attempt to free it again, ever.
>Peter do you have the changes to the refcount_t interface compare to the >version in this patch? >We are now starting working on atomic_t --> refcount_t conversions and it >would save a bit of work to have latest version from you that we can be based >upon. Oh, and if we define refcount_t to be just atomic_t underneath, what about the other atomic_long_t, local_t and atomic64_t cases when it is used for recounting? I don't feel good just simply changing them to become atomic_t under refcount_t wrapper.....
