netdev - [PATCH 24/36] net,rcu: convert call_rcu(net_generic_release) to kfree

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Message-ID: <4D82DA48.2070305@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:06:32 +0800
From:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 24/36] net,rcu: convert call_rcu(net_generic_release) to kfree_rcu()



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

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
---
 net/core/net_namespace.c |   10 +---------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index 3f86026..297bb92 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -27,14 +27,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_net);
 
 #define INITIAL_NET_GEN_PTRS	13 /* +1 for len +2 for rcu_head */
 
-static void net_generic_release(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-{
-	struct net_generic *ng;
-
-	ng = container_of(rcu, struct net_generic, rcu);
-	kfree(ng);
-}
-
 static int net_assign_generic(struct net *net, int id, void *data)
 {
 	struct net_generic *ng, *old_ng;
@@ -68,7 +60,7 @@ static int net_assign_generic(struct net *net, int id, void *data)
 	memcpy(&ng->ptr, &old_ng->ptr, old_ng->len * sizeof(void*));
 
 	rcu_assign_pointer(net->gen, ng);
-	call_rcu(&old_ng->rcu, net_generic_release);
+	kfree_rcu(old_ng, rcu);
 assign:
 	ng->ptr[id - 1] = data;
 	return 0;
-- 
1.7.4
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