From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org,
patches@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
robin.randhawa@arm.com, Steve.Bannister@arm.com,
Liviu.Dudau@arm.com, charles.garcia-tobin@arm.com,
arvind.chauhan@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: don't call get_group() for covered cpus
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:30:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130618173038.GD16094@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKohpon_1StvME0nySHRzc2dHNTXHF5X6CXo5J6Rvtyb8wktRg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:59:39PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 18 June 2013 20:49, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > Sure. Just send a new patch and I'll substitute.
>
> This is the new log (patch is attached):
>
> sched: Fix memory leakage in build_sched_groups()
>
> In build_sched_groups() we don't need to call get_group() for cpus which are
> already covered in previous iterations. Calling get_group() would mark the group
> used and eventually leak it since we wouldn't connect it and not find it again
> to free it.
>
> This will happen only in cases where sg->cpumask contained more than one cpu
> (For any topology level). This patch would free sg's memory for all cpus leaving
> the group leader as the group isn't marked used now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-18 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-11 11:02 [PATCH 0/3] sched: Sched Domains: Fixups - Part 3 Viresh Kumar
2013-06-11 11:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] sched: Use cached value of span instead of calling sched_domain_span() Viresh Kumar
2013-06-19 18:40 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Viresh Kumar
2013-06-11 11:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] sched: don't call get_group() for covered cpus Viresh Kumar
2013-06-18 10:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-18 10:15 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-06-18 15:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-18 15:29 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-06-18 17:30 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-06-19 18:41 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix memory leakage in build_sched_groups( ) tip-bot for Viresh Kumar
2013-06-11 11:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] sched: remove WARN_ON(!sd) from init_sched_groups_power() Viresh Kumar
2013-06-18 10:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-19 18:41 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Remove " tip-bot for Viresh Kumar
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