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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> There are a number of atomic_t usages in the kernel where atomic_t api
> is used strictly for counting sequence numbers and other statistical
> counters and not for managing object lifetime.

We already have something in Linux called a sequence counter, and it's
different from this.  ID counter?  instance number?  monotonic_t?  stat_t?