Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756146Ab1FHTa6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:30:58 -0400 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:50981 "EHLO e9.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755682Ab1FHTaq (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:30:46 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , Patrick McHardy Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 27/28] net,rcu: Convert call_rcu(xt_rateest_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu() Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 12:30:06 -0700 Message-Id: <1307561407-13809-27-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20110608192943.GA13211@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110608192943.GA13211@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1737 Lines: 52 The RCU callback xt_rateest_free_rcu() just calls kfree(), so we can use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu(). This also allows us to dispense with an rcu_barrier() call, speeding up unloading of this module. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Patrick McHardy Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c | 8 +------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c b/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c index de079abd..f264032 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c @@ -60,11 +60,6 @@ struct xt_rateest *xt_rateest_lookup(const char *name) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xt_rateest_lookup); -static void xt_rateest_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head) -{ - kfree(container_of(head, struct xt_rateest, rcu)); -} - void xt_rateest_put(struct xt_rateest *est) { mutex_lock(&xt_rateest_mutex); @@ -75,7 +70,7 @@ void xt_rateest_put(struct xt_rateest *est) * gen_estimator est_timer() might access est->lock or bstats, * wait a RCU grace period before freeing 'est' */ - call_rcu(&est->rcu, xt_rateest_free_rcu); + kfree_rcu(est, rcu); } mutex_unlock(&xt_rateest_mutex); } @@ -188,7 +183,6 @@ static int __init xt_rateest_tg_init(void) static void __exit xt_rateest_tg_fini(void) { xt_unregister_target(&xt_rateest_tg_reg); - rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s (xt_rateest_free_rcu) */ } -- 1.7.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/