We cannot get an accurate count from a localcount instance because it consists
of per-cpu counters and we have no way to sum them up atomically. So we cannot
detect counter overflow/underflow as we can do on a normal refcount.
The facility adds an atomic counter to each localcount instance to enable the
validations. The counter ups and downs in synchronization with the per-CPU
counters. The counter is used iff both DEBUG and LOCKDEBUG are enabled in the
kernel.
Discussed on tech-kern@