On Tue, Sep 27 2005, Nate Diller wrote:
> If the requested I/O scheduler is already in place, elevator_switch simply
> leaves the queue alone, and returns. However, it forgets to call
> elevator_put, so
>
> 'echo [current_sched] > /sys/block/[dev]/queue/scheduler'
>
> will leak a reference, causing the current_sched module to be permanently
> pinned in memory.
>
> This patchset is against 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, but should apply to anything
> recent.
Thanks, looks good.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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