On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:48 +1100, Ian Munsie wrote: > Excerpts from Michael Ellerman's message of 2015-11-02 11:53:45 +1100: > > On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 13:39 +0100, Frederic Barrat wrote: > > > > > When the cxl driver creates a context, it stores the pid of the > > > calling task, incrementing the reference count on the struct > > > pid. Current code mistakenly increments the reference count twice, > > > once through get_task_pid(), once through get_pid(). The reference > > > count is only decremented once on detach, thus the struct pid of the > > > task attaching is never freed. The fix is to simply remove the call to > > > get_pid(). > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <frederic.bar...@fr.ibm.com> > > > > What's the symptom? > > Everytime a process attached to a capi device it would reduce the total > number of processes that can be running simultaneously by one.
Right, and reduced it permanently until the next reboot, so eventually you'd kill your system presumably. cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
