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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/power/opp.c8
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)