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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure nobody's leaking resources
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:10:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060320161007.GA25444@granada.merseine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060320155304.GI8980@parisc-linux.org>

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:53:04AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Currently, releasing a resource also releases all of its children.  That
> made sense when request_resource was the main method of dividing up the
> memory map.  With the increased use of insert_resource, it seems to me
> that we should instead reparent the newly orphaned resources.  Before
> we do that, let's make sure that nobody's actually relying on the current
> semantics.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
> 
> diff -urpNX dontdiff linus-2.6/kernel/resource.c parisc-2.6/kernel/resource.c
> --- linus-2.6/kernel/resource.c	2006-03-20 07:29:06.000000000 -0700
> +++ parisc-2.6/kernel/resource.c	2006-03-20 07:00:47.000000000 -0700
> @@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ static int __release_resource(struct res
>  {
>  	struct resource *tmp, **p;
>  
> +	BUG_ON(old->child);
> +

Is this expressely forbidden at this stage, or just "not recommended"?
if the latter, WARN_ON() might be more appropriate.

Cheers,
Muli
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-20 15:53 [PATCH] Make sure nobody's leaking resources Matthew Wilcox
2006-03-20 16:10 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2006-03-20 21:34   ` Andrew Morton

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