1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
index bef0f535f746..a0f998c07c65 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 #include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/socket.h>
 #include <linux/in.h>
-#include <linux/kref.h>
 #include <linux/ktime.h>
 #include <linux/sunrpc/sched.h>
 #include <linux/sunrpc/xdr.h>
@@ -146,7 +145,7 @@ enum xprt_transports {
 };
 
 struct rpc_xprt {
-        struct kref             kref;           /* Reference count */
+        atomic_t                count;          /* Reference count */
         struct rpc_xprt_ops *   ops;            /* transport methods */
 
         const struct rpc_timeout *timeout;      /* timeout parms */