linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 84/86] ipc,rcu: convert call_rcu(ipc_immediate_free) to kfree

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Date:	Sun,  1 May 2011 06:22:04 -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 84/86] ipc,rcu: convert call_rcu(ipc_immediate_free) to kfree_rcu()

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

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

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---
 ipc/util.c |   16 +---------------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c
index 5c0d289..75261a3 100644
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -579,19 +579,6 @@ static void ipc_schedule_free(struct rcu_head *head)
 	schedule_work(&sched->work);
 }
 
-/**
- * ipc_immediate_free - free ipc + rcu space
- * @head: RCU callback structure that contains pointer to be freed
- *
- * Free from the RCU callback context.
- */
-static void ipc_immediate_free(struct rcu_head *head)
-{
-	struct ipc_rcu_grace *free =
-		container_of(head, struct ipc_rcu_grace, rcu);
-	kfree(free);
-}
-
 void ipc_rcu_putref(void *ptr)
 {
 	if (--container_of(ptr, struct ipc_rcu_hdr, data)->refcount > 0)
@@ -601,8 +588,7 @@ void ipc_rcu_putref(void *ptr)
 		call_rcu(&container_of(ptr, struct ipc_rcu_grace, data)->rcu,
 				ipc_schedule_free);
 	} else {
-		call_rcu(&container_of(ptr, struct ipc_rcu_grace, data)->rcu,
-				ipc_immediate_free);
+		kfree_rcu(container_of(ptr, struct ipc_rcu_grace, data), rcu);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
1.7.3.2

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