From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764979AbYDVPC1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:02:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764874AbYDVPCM (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:02:12 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35541 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764861AbYDVPCK (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:02:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:01:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jens Axboe cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/11] Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls In-Reply-To: <20080422145105.GJ12774@kernel.dk> Message-ID: References: <1208851058-8500-1-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> <1208851058-8500-2-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> <20080422145105.GJ12774@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > You forgot to free the "data" here? The waiter must also free the object, > > since now the callee does not. > > The ipi interrupt handler does that, see kfree() in > generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt() or call_func_data_free() in > generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(). Hell no, it does *not*. Doing that for the waiting case would be a *huge* bug, since the waiter needs to wait until the flag is clear - and if the waitee free's the allocation, that will never happen. So the rule *must* be: - waiter frees - ipi interrupt frees non-waiting ones. because anything else cannot work. And you must have known that, because the code you pointed me to does *not* free the data at all. It just clears the FLAG_WAIT flag: + if (data->csd.flags & CSD_FLAG_WAIT) { + smp_wmb(); + data->csd.flags &= ~CSD_FLAG_WAIT; + } else + call_func_data_free(data); So please think about this some more. Linus