Since SLOB was removed and since commit 6c6c47b063b5 ("mm, slab: call kvfree_rcu_barrier() from kmem_cache_destroy()"), it is not necessary to use call_rcu when the callback only performs kmem_cache_free. Use kfree_rcu() directly. The changes were made using Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c index 4576aaed13b2..fc40dacabe78 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -413,18 +413,11 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void) return tmr; } -static void k_itimer_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head) -{ - struct k_itimer *tmr = container_of(head, struct k_itimer, rcu); - - kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr); -} - static void posix_timer_free(struct k_itimer *tmr) { put_pid(tmr->it_pid); sigqueue_free(tmr->sigq); - call_rcu(&tmr->rcu, k_itimer_rcu_free); + kfree_rcu(tmr, rcu); } static void posix_timer_unhash_and_free(struct k_itimer *tmr)