On Fri, 2 May 2014, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 12:43:17PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote: > > On Fri, 2 May 2014, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > In principle the vfs file refcounting should be responsible for that. > > > But I'll go over it in a bit. > > > > The poll code is ancient and the C-parser in my head really can't handle > > it very well. > > Yeah, that code isn't my favourite part either.. > > > Anyway for completeness this is the kind of thing I'm seeing. > > The poll() manpage isn't very clear about what is supposed to happen if > > you poll() on a closed file descriptor. > > POLLNVAL > Invalid request: fd not open (output only). > > Seems applicable..
You're right and it seems to return that properly, so having poll be active might just be a weird co-incidence. > Also, could you send your entire diff this way so we're more or less > staring at the same code again? that last test I ran was just 3.15-rc1 plus the last patch you sent, plus a patch to allow -pg on the event.c file, plus an unrelated one that works around the current make-kpkg debian breakage. Vince -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

