linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()

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Date:	Mon, 9 Nov 2015 23:25:44 +0000
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
CC:	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"drbd-user@...ts.linbit.com" <drbd-user@...ts.linbit.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	"Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	"codalist@...a.cs.cmu.edu" <codalist@...a.cs.cmu.edu>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Boris Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()

> ACK for the ACPI changes (and CCing Tony and Boris for the heads-up as they
> are way more famailiar with the APEI code than I am).

Sure. If kvfree() really is smart enough to figure it out then there
it no point in the if (blah) kfree() else vfree().

The drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c code isn't doing anything subtle or magic here.

-Tony