[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] dlm close othercons

[Fabio M. Di Nitto]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Patrick Caulfeld wrote:

> This patch addresses a problem introduced with the last round of
> lowcomms patches where the 'othercon' connections do not get freed when
> the DLM shuts down.
>
> This results in the error message
> "slab error in kmem_cache_destroy(): cache `dlm_conn': Can't free all
> objects"
>
> and the DLM cannot be restarted without a system reboot.
>
> See bz#428119
>
> Signed-Off-By: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie at redhat.com>
>

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw.git;a=commitdiff;h=89f0bb2873fcaa8e57831dd3f0c013cabbd99012

this doesn't look right...

shouldn't we free the con->other _before_ we free con?

That's what we were doing before applying all that patch set that removed 
the original kmem_cache_free...

Fabio

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