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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip/cpus4096-v2] cpumask: fix memory leak and cpumask corruption
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:55:29 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810241955.29400.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4901564F.7020308@ct.jp.nec.com>

On Friday 24 October 2008 15:59:59 Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote:
> From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>

Hi Hiroshi,

   Thanks for looking at this!

> On CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK enabled kernel, when exiting
> smp_call_function_many() without calling arch_send_call_function_ipi()
> allbutself should be freed.

   That bit's OK, changing the return to "goto out;".

> Also, the memory for allbutself shouldn't be freed when
> arch_send_call_function_ipi() is called.  The memory region will be
> referenced in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(). And the memory
> will be freed at rcu_free_call_data().

As your next patch shows, this should be solved a different way.  I'll comment 
there.

Cheers,
Rusty.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24  4:59 [PATCH -tip/cpus4096-v2] cpumask: fix memory leak and cpumask corruption Hiroshi Shimamoto
2008-10-24  8:55 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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