On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

There are many locations that do

  if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc)
    vfree(ptr);
  else
    kfree(ptr);

but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory
using is_vmalloc_addr(). Unless callers have special reasons, we can
replace this branch with kvfree(). Please check and reply if you found
problems.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Russell King <redacted> # arm
Cc: <redacted> # apei
Cc: <redacted> # drbd
Cc: <redacted> # mspec
Cc: <redacted> # drm
Cc: Oleg Drokin <redacted> # lustre
Cc: Andreas Dilger <redacted> # lustre
Cc: <redacted> # coda
Cc: <redacted> # jffs2
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> # udf
Cc: <redacted> # xattr
Cc: <redacted> # ipc + mm
Cc: <redacted> # ipv4

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

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