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Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()

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On Monday, November 09, 2015 08:56:10 PM Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> 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.

ACK for the ACPI changes (and CCing Tony and Boris for the heads-up as they
are way more famailiar with the APEI code than I am).

Thanks,
Rafael

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[PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree() Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2015-11-09 13:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree() Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2015-11-09 13:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional  kfree()/vfree() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-11-09 17:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree() Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-09 17:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree() "Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@intel.com> - 2015-11-09 21:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree() "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2015-11-09 22:20 +0100
    RE: [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree() "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2015-11-10 00:30 +0100
  Re: [DRBD-user] [PATCH] tree wide: Use kvfree() than conditional  kfree()/vfree() Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> - 2015-11-10 14:40 +0100

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