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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()
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> 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
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