Re: [PATCH] perf: Cleanup user's child events

[Alexander Shishkin]

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 01:22:15PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>> Events are leaking in the following scenario: user creates an event for
>> task A, task A forks into B (producing a child event), user closes the
>> original event. Both original user's event and its child will remain for
>> as long as task B is around. In other words, we don't clean up children
>> when we try to release the parent.
>
> The orphan stuff should clear those up, no?

Not if they don't schedule after the parent's gone.

Regards,
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Alex