Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 05/12] VMCI: event handling implementation.

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On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:01:52PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:26:05PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:04:27PM -0700, George Zhang wrote:
> > > +static void event_signal_destroy(struct kref *kref)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct vmci_subscription *entry =
> > > +			container_of(kref, struct vmci_subscription, kref);
> > > +
> > > +	complete(&entry->done);
> > > +}
> > 
> > Didn't you just leak memory here?  What frees the structure up?
> 
> event_unregister_subscription() waits for that completion and frees the
> structure. We want event_unregister_subscription() to wait until all
> fired callbacks completed before unregister is complete.

So all calls to this can just sit and spin waiting for others to clean
up?  Odd, but ok.

greg k-h
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