From: NeilBrown on
This series tidies up the refcount of sysfs_dirents in sysfs,
using kref where appropriate and a new karef for s_active.
This achieves significant code simplification, especially the first
patch.

This is in part inspired by http://lwn.net/Articles/336224/ :-)

NeilBrown

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NeilBrown (3):
sysfs: simplify handling for s_active refcount
sysfs: make s_count a kref
kref: create karef and use for sysfs_dirent->s_active


fs/sysfs/dir.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
fs/sysfs/mount.c | 3 +-
fs/sysfs/sysfs.h | 19 +++++--------
include/linux/kref.h | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
lib/kref.c | 13 +++++++++
5 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)

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