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Because the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU code does not zero pages that are
to be broken up into slabs, the memory returned by kmem_cache_alloc()
must be fully initialized, including any spinlocks included in the newly
allocated structure.  This means that readers attempting to look up an
SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU object must use a reference-counting approach.
A spinlock may be acquired only after a reference is obtained, which
prevents that object from being passed to kmem_struct_free(), but only
while that reference continues to be held.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>