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Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:29:58 +0800
From:	Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	pshelar@...ira.com, mike.rapoport@...ellosystems.com,
	amwang@...hat.com
Cc:	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -next] vxlan: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code

From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>

The callback function of call_rcu() just calls a kfree(), so we
can use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() + callback function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
---
 drivers/net/vxlan.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index 227b54a..d6fc046 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -498,12 +498,6 @@ static int vxlan_fdb_create(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void vxlan_fdb_free_rdst(struct rcu_head *head)
-{
-	struct vxlan_rdst *rd = container_of(head, struct vxlan_rdst, rcu);
-	kfree(rd);
-}
-
 static void vxlan_fdb_free(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
 	struct vxlan_fdb *f = container_of(head, struct vxlan_fdb, rcu);
@@ -643,7 +637,7 @@ static int vxlan_fdb_delete(struct ndmsg *ndm, struct nlattr *tb[],
 	 */
 	if (rd && !list_is_singular(&f->remotes)) {
 		list_del_rcu(&rd->list);
-		call_rcu(&rd->rcu, vxlan_fdb_free_rdst);
+		kfree_rcu(rd, rcu);
 		goto out;
 	}
 

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