This is required to prevent callbacks triggering RCU machinery too quickly and too often, which adds more power to the system. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cred.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index e10c15f51c1f..c7cb2e3ac73a 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ void __put_cred(struct cred *cred) if (cred->non_rcu) put_cred_rcu(&cred->rcu); else - call_rcu(&cred->rcu, put_cred_rcu); + call_rcu_lazy(&cred->rcu, put_cred_rcu); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__put_cred); -- 2.37.2.609.g9ff673ca1a-goog