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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-05-02 01:00:18 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-07-20 14:10:19 -0700
commitcefcb602012482003ca2ccc44fcba628d006e4bd (patch)
tree798dc373f83d8b7e6c5de17a13288e589218be48
parenta95cded32de3deae13af34715200532e6823cc9f (diff)
net,rcu: Convert call_rcu(xt_rateest_free_rcu) to kfree_rcu()
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 <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c8
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c b/net/netfilter/xt_RATEEST.c
index de079abd5bc..f264032b8c5 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) */
}