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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/power')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/power/opp.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/power/opp.c b/drivers/base/power/opp.c index 1bbef8e838e..e1807268cbf 100644 --- a/drivers/base/power/opp.c +++ b/drivers/base/power/opp.c @@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ struct dev_pm_opp { * * This is an internal data structure maintaining the link to opps attached to * a device. This structure is not meant to be shared to users as it is - * meant for book keeping and private to OPP library + * meant for book keeping and private to OPP library. + * + * Because the opp structures can be used from both rcu and srcu readers, we + * need to wait for the grace period of both of them before freeing any + * resources. And so we have used kfree_rcu() from within call_srcu() handlers. */ struct device_opp { struct list_head node; @@ -511,7 +515,7 @@ static void kfree_device_rcu(struct rcu_head *head) { struct device_opp *device_opp = container_of(head, struct device_opp, rcu_head); - kfree(device_opp); + kfree_rcu(device_opp, rcu_head); } void __dev_pm_opp_remove(struct device_opp *dev_opp, struct dev_pm_opp *opp) |