[PVFS2-developers] patch: misc. memory cleanups

[Phil Carns]

Robert Latham wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:48:18PM +0100, Phil Carns wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I tried running a pvfs2 server through in Parasoft's Insure tool the 
>>other week and found some issues.  Unfortunately, the tool crashed when 
>>requests were actually sent to the server, but I at least cleaned up a 
>>few things found at compile or at server initialization time.
>>
>>I attached several seperate patches to make it easier to see what they 
>>change; the fixes are rather scattered.  Summary listed below, in order 
>>of importance
>>
>>-Phil
>>------------------------------------
>>
>>job-desc-locking.patch:
>>locking was added to the job-desc queue at some point, but I found a 
>>couple of problems: each new queue construction destroyed a global 
>>(rather than per queue) lock, some functions were unprotected, and some 
>>functions were protected in duplicate at the job layer.  To fix, I 
>>removed these locks from the job-desc-queue and expanded the locking at 
>>the job layer a bit to make sure that every queue access is protected by 
>>an external mutex.
> 
> 
> Ok, this one took me a little while to understand, but I've added it
> to cvs.  I can't belive it took me 4 months to get around to this one.  

No problem, and thanks for applying!
-Phil