linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 66/86] perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(swevent_hlist_release_rcu) to kfree

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Date:	Sun,  1 May 2011 06:21:46 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	dhowells@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, darren@...art.com,
	patches@...aro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 66/86] perf,rcu: convert call_rcu(swevent_hlist_release_rcu) to kfree_rcu()

From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>

The rcu callback swevent_hlist_release_rcu() just calls a kfree(),
so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(swevent_hlist_release_rcu).

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c |   10 +---------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 865c6f7..6536a03 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -5311,14 +5311,6 @@ swevent_hlist_deref(struct swevent_htable *swhash)
 					 lockdep_is_held(&swhash->hlist_mutex));
 }
 
-static void swevent_hlist_release_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head)
-{
-	struct swevent_hlist *hlist;
-
-	hlist = container_of(rcu_head, struct swevent_hlist, rcu_head);
-	kfree(hlist);
-}
-
 static void swevent_hlist_release(struct swevent_htable *swhash)
 {
 	struct swevent_hlist *hlist = swevent_hlist_deref(swhash);
@@ -5327,7 +5319,7 @@ static void swevent_hlist_release(struct swevent_htable *swhash)
 		return;
 
 	rcu_assign_pointer(swhash->swevent_hlist, NULL);
-	call_rcu(&hlist->rcu_head, swevent_hlist_release_rcu);
+	kfree_rcu(hlist, rcu_head);
 }
 
 static void swevent_hlist_put_cpu(struct perf_event *event, int cpu)
-- 
1.7.3.2

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