On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:43:30PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
>> > + for_each_node(node)
>> > +
>> > BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var_node(&wq_numa_possible_cpumask[node],
>> > + GFP_KERNEL, node));
>> > + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>> > + node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
>> > + if (WARN_ON(node == NUMA_NO_NODE)) {
>> > + pr_err("workqueue: NUMA node mapping not available
>> > for cpu%d, disabling NUMA support\n", cpu);
>>
>> since you used WARN_ON(), not BUG_ON(), I think you need to free
>> allocated memory here.
>
> I don't know. Is it necessary? It shouldn't happen sans bugs in arch
> code and we're vomiting warning message with full stack trace. The
> system will function but something is seriously screwed. I don't
> think it matters whether we free the puny number of bytes there or
> not and I don't wanna nest deeper there. :P
I agree with you, but many people use semantic analysis tools to do
hunting in the kernel. they may interrupt you again.
>
> --
> tejun
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