Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:40:29 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] block cleanups: Fix iosched module refcount leak |
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On Tue, Sep 27 2005, Nate Diller wrote: > If the requested I/O scheduler is already in place, elevator_switch simply > leaves the queue alone, and returns. However, it forgets to call > elevator_put, so > > 'echo [current_sched] > /sys/block/[dev]/queue/scheduler' > > will leak a reference, causing the current_sched module to be permanently > pinned in memory. > > This patchset is against 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, but should apply to anything > recent.
Thanks, looks good.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
-- Jens Axboe
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