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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:30:38 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org> Cc: mingo@...hat.com, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, robin.randhawa@....com, Steve.Bannister@....com, Liviu.Dudau@....com, charles.garcia-tobin@....com, arvind.chauhan@....com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: don't call get_group() for covered cpus On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:59:39PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 18 June 2013 20:49, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.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@...aro.org> Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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