Re: Warning: dev (pts(136,0)) tty->count(5) != #fd's(4) in tty_open

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:21:53 -0800


"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> I'm getting lots of these messages whilst running big SDET runs on
> an 16-way machine ... anyone recognize them?
> (64-bk3 + a few patches).
>
> dev (pts(136,0)) tty->count(4) != #fd's(3) in release_dev

The file_list_lock patches affect this. Do you have those applied?

If so, and if it is repeatable, this might help. (Unlikely, but it might).

diff -puN drivers/char/tty_io.c~tty_files-fixes drivers/char/tty_io.c
--- 25/drivers/char/tty_io.c~tty_files-fixes 2003-03-09 23:15:15.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2003-03-09 23:15:58.000000000 -0800
@@ -1037,7 +1037,9 @@ static void release_mem(struct tty_struc
}
o_tty->magic = 0;
(*o_tty->driver.refcount)--;
+ file_list_lock();
list_del(&o_tty->tty_files);
+ file_list_unlock();
free_tty_struct(o_tty);
}

@@ -1049,7 +1051,9 @@ static void release_mem(struct tty_struc
}
tty->magic = 0;
(*tty->driver.refcount)--;
+ file_list_lock();
list_del(&tty->tty_files);
+ file_list_unlock();
module_put(tty->driver.owner);
free_tty_struct(tty);
}

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