The patch titled Subject: ipc/util.c: use kvfree() in ipc_rcu_free() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipc-utilc-use-kvfree-in-ipc_rcu_free.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ipc-utilc-use-kvfree-in-ipc_rcu_free.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ipc-utilc-use-kvfree-in-ipc_rcu_free.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ipc/util.c: use kvfree() in ipc_rcu_free() Use kvfree() instead of open-coding it. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- ipc/util.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN ipc/util.c~ipc-utilc-use-kvfree-in-ipc_rcu_free ipc/util.c --- a/ipc/util.c~ipc-utilc-use-kvfree-in-ipc_rcu_free +++ a/ipc/util.c @@ -467,10 +467,7 @@ void ipc_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head) { struct ipc_rcu *p = container_of(head, struct ipc_rcu, rcu); - if (is_vmalloc_addr(p)) - vfree(p); - else - kfree(p); + kvfree(p); } /** _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from penberg@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-slab_common-support-the-slub_debug-boot-option-on-specific-object-size.patch mm-slab_common-support-the-slub_debug-boot-option-on-specific-object-size-fix.patch slab-correct-size_index-table-before-replacing-the-bootstrap-kmem_cache_node.patch slab-infrastructure-for-bulk-object-allocation-and-freeing-v3.patch slub-bulk-alloc-extract-objects-from-the-per-cpu-slab.patch slub-bulk-allocation-from-per-cpu-partial-pages.patch slub-bulk-allocation-from-per-cpu-partial-pages-fix.patch memblock-introduce-a-for_each_reserved_mem_region-iterator.patch mm-meminit-move-page-initialization-into-a-separate-function.patch mm-meminit-only-set-page-reserved-in-the-memblock-region.patch mm-page_alloc-pass-pfn-to-__free_pages_bootmem.patch mm-meminit-make-__early_pfn_to_nid-smp-safe-and-introduce-meminit_pfn_in_nid.patch mm-meminit-inline-some-helper-functions.patch mm-meminit-initialise-a-subset-of-struct-pages-if-config_deferred_struct_page_init-is-set.patch mm-meminit-initialise-remaining-struct-pages-in-parallel-with-kswapd.patch mm-meminit-minimise-number-of-pfn-page-lookups-during-initialisation.patch x86-mm-enable-deferred-struct-page-initialisation-on-x86-64.patch mm-meminit-free-pages-in-large-chunks-where-possible.patch mm-meminit-reduce-number-of-times-pageblocks-are-set-during-struct-page-init.patch mm-meminit-remove-mminit_verify_page_links.patch page-flags-define-behavior-slb-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch ipc-utilc-use-kvfree-in-ipc_rcu_free.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html