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authorVadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>2006-12-22 12:10:43 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-22 19:55:50 +0300
commit01b2d93ca4c495f056471189ac6c4e6ac4cbbccb (patch)
tree86aa1aabae8207e693e31ee68b526376388a36a3 /kernel
parent31fccf7fe4097e62f038bdfe8f4f68ecaea8ebe7 (diff)
downloadlinux-01b2d93ca4c495f056471189ac6c4e6ac4cbbccb.tar.xz
[PATCH] fdtable: Provide free_fdtable() wrapper
Christoph Hellwig has expressed concerns that the recent fdtable changes expose the details of the RCU methodology used to release no-longer-used fdtable structures to the rest of the kernel. The trivial patch below addresses these concerns by introducing the appropriate free_fdtable() calls, which simply wrap the release RCU usage. Since free_fdtable() is a one-liner, it makes sense to promote it to an inline helper. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 122fadb972fc..85917c2bf065 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ void fastcall put_files_struct(struct files_struct *files)
fdt = files_fdtable(files);
if (fdt != &files->fdtab)
kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, files);
- call_rcu(&fdt->rcu, free_fdtable_rcu);
+ free_fdtable(fdt);
}
}