On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 07:28:42PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > This allows callers to get back at them instead of having to store > > it in another variable. > > Alternatively you tell the irq code to free it for you. Patch below. Yes, this should work to. But I think having the same layer free something they allocated again is a tad cleaner in terms of layering. If you prefer this version I can respin the series.