On 2 August 2013 12:39, Srivatsa S. Bhat
[off-list ref] wrote:

I guess you are printing it at an odd time, when the module
is still running its init function. Perhaps the core kernel
module infrastructure increments the refcount around that
region temporarily?

If I think logically, that sounds correct. I haven't looked at the
implementation details though. But yes, I understood why
my refcount was incremented :)

Thanks.