On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> # arm
> Cc: <[email protected]> # apei
> Cc: <[email protected]> # drbd
> Cc: <[email protected]> # mspec
> Cc: <[email protected]> # drm
> Cc: Oleg Drokin <[email protected]> # lustre
> Cc: Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> # lustre
> Cc: <[email protected]> # coda
> Cc: <[email protected]> # jffs2
> Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]> # udf
> Cc: <[email protected]> # xattr
> Cc: <[email protected]> # ipc + mm
> Cc: <[email protected]> # ipv4

Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
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