linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 28/36] net,rcu: convert call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free) to kfree

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Message-Id: <201103181027.25735.remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:27:25 +0200
From:	"Rémi Denis-Courmont" 
	<remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
To:	ext Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/36] net,rcu: convert call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free) to kfree_rcu()

On Friday 18 March 2011 06:09:03 ext Lai Jiangshan, you wrote:
> The rcu callback phonet_device_rcu_free() just calls a kfree(),
> so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(phonet_device_rcu_free).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>

In principles, that's fine with me. But I think David is not taking that kind 
of not-a-fix patch at the moment...

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
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