[PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()
Dilger, Andreas
andreas.dilger at intel.com
Mon Nov 9 12:41:04 PST 2015
On 2015/11/09, 04:56, "Tetsuo Handa" <penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
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 at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
>Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
For Lustre part:
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger at intel.com>
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Lustre Principal Engineer
Intel High Performance Data Division
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