From 01b2d93ca4c495f056471189ac6c4e6ac4cbbccb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Lobanov Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:10:43 -0800 Subject: [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 Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/exit.c') diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 122fadb972f..85917c2bf06 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); } } -- cgit v1.2.3