Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 25/06/10 18.51, Jeff Moyer wrote: >>>> + cfq_log_cfqq(cfqd, cfqq, "yielding queue to %d", tsk->pid); >>>> + cfqq->yield_to = new_cic; >>> >>> We are stashing away a pointer to cic without taking reference? >> >> There is no reference counting on the cic. > > Not on the cic itself, but on the io context it belongs to. So you > need to grab a reference to that, if you are stowing a reference > to the cic. OK, easy enough. Thanks! Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html