openvswitch: using kfree_rcu() to simplify the code
authorWei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:20:45 +0000 (18:20 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:55:38 +0000 (15:55 -0400)
The callback function of call_rcu() just calls a kfree(), so we
can use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() + callback function.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/openvswitch/flow.c

index b7f38b1..c7bf2f2 100644 (file)
@@ -427,19 +427,11 @@ void ovs_flow_deferred_free(struct sw_flow *flow)
        call_rcu(&flow->rcu, rcu_free_flow_callback);
 }
 
-/* RCU callback used by ovs_flow_deferred_free_acts. */
-static void rcu_free_acts_callback(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-{
-       struct sw_flow_actions *sf_acts = container_of(rcu,
-                       struct sw_flow_actions, rcu);
-       kfree(sf_acts);
-}
-
 /* Schedules 'sf_acts' to be freed after the next RCU grace period.
  * The caller must hold rcu_read_lock for this to be sensible. */
 void ovs_flow_deferred_free_acts(struct sw_flow_actions *sf_acts)
 {
-       call_rcu(&sf_acts->rcu, rcu_free_acts_callback);
+       kfree_rcu(sf_acts, rcu);
 }
 
 static int parse_vlan(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sw_flow_key *key)