linux-kernel - [PATCH 9/9] tracing: Switch to kvfree

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Date:   Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:03:08 +0100
From:   "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, RCU <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@...ymobile.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] tracing: Switch to kvfree_rcu() API

Instead of invoking a synchronize_rcu() to free a pointer
after a grace period we can directly make use of new API
that does the same but in more efficient way.

CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 3 +--
 kernel/trace/trace_probe.c   | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
index 7520d43aed55..4719a848bf17 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
@@ -138,8 +138,7 @@ static void osnoise_unregister_instance(struct trace_array *tr)
 	if (!found)
 		return;
 
-	synchronize_rcu();
-	kfree(inst);
+	kvfree_rcu(inst);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
index 3ed2a3f37297..8a3822818bf8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
@@ -1138,8 +1138,7 @@ int trace_probe_remove_file(struct trace_probe *tp,
 		return -ENOENT;
 
 	list_del_rcu(&link->list);
-	synchronize_rcu();
-	kfree(link);
+	kvfree_rcu(link);
 
 	if (list_empty(&tp->event->files))
 		trace_probe_clear_flag(tp, TP_FLAG_TRACE);
-- 
2.30.2