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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>2016-01-22 15:11:02 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-22 17:02:18 -0800
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tree wide: use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()
There are many locations that do if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc) vfree(ptr); else kfree(ptr); but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory using is_vmalloc_addr(). Unless callers have special reasons, we can replace this branch with kvfree(). Please check and reply if you found problems. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> Cc: Boris Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/util.c')
-rw-r--r--ipc/util.c11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c
index 0f401d94b7c6..798cad18dd87 100644
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -414,17 +414,12 @@ void *ipc_alloc(int size)
/**
* ipc_free - free ipc space
* @ptr: pointer returned by ipc_alloc
- * @size: size of block
*
- * Free a block created with ipc_alloc(). The caller must know the size
- * used in the allocation call.
+ * Free a block created with ipc_alloc().
*/
-void ipc_free(void *ptr, int size)
+void ipc_free(void *ptr)
{
- if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
- vfree(ptr);
- else
- kfree(ptr);
+ kvfree(ptr);
}
/**