From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>,
Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de,
Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG 2.6.17-git] kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache scsi_cmd_cache
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 22:39:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060512213916.GO27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060512210300.GE17120@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:03:01PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> The block layer holds on to a reference to a struct device which
> isn't refcounted (until I added it with my patch.) Hence struct
> gendisk structures have a completely independent lifetime and are
> only destroyed when all references to them are removed.
Yes, they are and that's intentional.
Can you explain WTF do you drop that reference so late and not in the
del_gendisk() time?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-12 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060511151456.GD3755@harddisk-recovery.com>
[not found] ` <15ddcffd0605112153q57f139a1k7068e204a3eeaf1f@mail.gmail.com>
2006-05-12 17:16 ` [BUG 2.6.17-git] kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache scsi_cmd_cache Erik Mouw
2006-05-12 17:27 ` Andrew Vasquez
2006-05-12 20:18 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-12 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 17:47 ` James Bottomley
2006-05-12 18:58 ` James Bottomley
2006-05-12 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 20:38 ` Russell King
2006-05-12 20:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 20:58 ` Russell King
2006-05-12 21:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 21:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 21:51 ` Russell King
2006-05-12 22:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 22:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 23:57 ` Greg KH
2006-05-14 16:01 ` Russell King
2006-05-12 21:18 ` Greg KH
2006-05-12 21:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 22:45 ` Greg KH
2006-05-12 20:52 ` Greg KH
2006-05-12 21:03 ` Russell King
2006-05-12 21:34 ` Greg KH
2006-05-12 21:39 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-05-12 20:30 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-12 20:37 ` Russell King
2006-05-12 20:21 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-12 20:34 ` Russell King
2006-05-12 21:43 ` Al Viro
2006-05-12 21:55 ` Russell King
2006-05-12 22:08 ` Al Viro
2006-05-12 22:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 22:28 ` Al Viro
2006-05-12 22:48 ` Al Viro
2006-05-12 22:51 ` Al Viro
2006-05-12 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-12 23:21 ` Al Viro
2006-05-12 23:37 ` Al Viro
2006-05-12 23:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-13 0:20 ` Al Viro
2006-05-24 14:07 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-13 0:08 ` Greg KH
2006-05-12 22:37 ` Russell King
2006-05-12 21:58 ` Al Viro
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