From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not free io context when taking recursive faults in do_exit
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:16:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081119091656.GU26308@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811191215.35438.knikanth@suse.de>
On Wed, Nov 19 2008, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> When taking recursive faults in do_exit, if the io_context is not null,
> exit_io_context() is being called. But it might decrement the refcount
> more than once. It is better to leave this task alone.
Agree, it's better to just leave that alone. Applied to for-2.6.29.
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Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-19 9:19 UTC|newest]
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2008-11-19 6:45 [PATCH] Do not free io context when taking recursive faults in do_exit Nikanth Karthikesan
2008-11-19 9:16 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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