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[PATCH] block: CFQ refcounting fix

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I ran across a memory leak related to the cfq scheduler. The cfq
init function increments the refcnt of the associated request_queue.

This refcount gets decremented in cfq's exit function. Since blk_cleanup_queue
only calls the elevator exit function when its refcnt goes to zero, the
request_q never gets cleaned up. It didn't look like other io schedulers were
incrementing this refcnt, so I removed the refcnt increment and it fixed the
memory leak for me.

To reproduce the problem, simply use cfq and use the scsi_host scan sysfs
attribute to scan "- - -" repeatedly on a scsi host and watch the memory
vanish.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Brian King 2005-09-06 15:18:04 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 49e31cbac5
commit 38f1852759
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drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c
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@ -2260,8 +2260,6 @@ static void cfq_put_cfqd(struct cfq_data *cfqd)
if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&cfqd->ref))
return;
blk_put_queue(q);
cfq_shutdown_timer_wq(cfqd);
q->elevator->elevator_data = NULL;
@ -2318,7 +2316,6 @@ static int cfq_init_queue(request_queue_t *q, elevator_t *e)
e->elevator_data = cfqd;
cfqd->queue = q;
atomic_inc(&q->refcnt);
cfqd->max_queued = q->nr_requests / 4;
q->nr_batching = cfq_queued;