[PATCH] openvswitch: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code
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From: Wei Yongjun <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-27 04:20:45
Subsystem:
networking [general], openvswitch, the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Aaron Conole, Eelco Chaudron, Ilya Maximets, Linus Torvalds
From: Wei Yongjun <redacted> The callback function of call_rcu() just calls a kfree(), so we can use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() + callback function. spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem. (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <redacted> --- net/openvswitch/flow.c | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow.c b/net/openvswitch/flow.c
index b7f38b1..c7bf2f2 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow.c@@ -427,19 +427,11 @@ void ovs_flow_deferred_free(struct sw_flow *flow) call_rcu(&flow->rcu, rcu_free_flow_callback); } -/* RCU callback used by ovs_flow_deferred_free_acts. */ -static void rcu_free_acts_callback(struct rcu_head *rcu) -{ - struct sw_flow_actions *sf_acts = container_of(rcu, - struct sw_flow_actions, rcu); - kfree(sf_acts); -} - /* Schedules 'sf_acts' to be freed after the next RCU grace period. * The caller must hold rcu_read_lock for this to be sensible. */ void ovs_flow_deferred_free_acts(struct sw_flow_actions *sf_acts) { - call_rcu(&sf_acts->rcu, rcu_free_acts_callback); + kfree_rcu(sf_acts, rcu); } static int parse_vlan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key)