linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 41/86] net,rcu: convert call_rcu(listeners_free_rcu) to kfree

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Date:	Sun,  1 May 2011 06:21:21 -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 41/86] net,rcu: convert call_rcu(listeners_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()

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

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

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c |    8 +-------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index c8f35b5..5fe4f3b 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1566,12 +1566,6 @@ netlink_kernel_release(struct sock *sk)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_kernel_release);
 
-
-static void listeners_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
-{
-	kfree(container_of(head, struct listeners, rcu));
-}
-
 int __netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups)
 {
 	struct listeners *new, *old;
@@ -1588,7 +1582,7 @@ int __netlink_change_ngroups(struct sock *sk, unsigned int groups)
 		memcpy(new->masks, old->masks, NLGRPSZ(tbl->groups));
 		rcu_assign_pointer(tbl->listeners, new);
 
-		call_rcu(&old->rcu, listeners_free_rcu);
+		kfree_rcu(old, rcu);
 	}
 	tbl->groups = groups;
 
-- 
1.7.3.2

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