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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2011-08-08 14:56:19 +0900
committerMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2011-08-08 14:56:19 +0900
commit18d4ed4342c14ebeebe60d267b171053efcdfa87 (patch)
treef315e77f66cbb70869e2f80cde5c18380a80901e /kernel/sysctl.c
parent722d0daf2b607a32dad1357bf797e3803484af0a (diff)
parent22de4534ae12d61257fc0e53d2571686b03305bc (diff)
Merge branch 'for-3.1' into for-3.2
Conflict due to the fix for the register map failure - taken the for-3.1 version. Conflicts: sound/soc/codecs/sgtl5000.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 4fc92445a29c..11d65b531e50 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -938,6 +938,12 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
},
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
+ /*
+ * User-space scripts rely on the existence of this file
+ * as a feature check for perf_events being enabled.
+ *
+ * So it's an ABI, do not remove!
+ */
{
.procname = "perf_event_paranoid",
.data = &sysctl_perf_event_paranoid,
@@ -1584,16 +1590,11 @@ void sysctl_head_get(struct ctl_table_header *head)
spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
}
-static void free_head(struct rcu_head *rcu)
-{
- kfree(container_of(rcu, struct ctl_table_header, rcu));
-}
-
void sysctl_head_put(struct ctl_table_header *head)
{
spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
if (!--head->count)
- call_rcu(&head->rcu, free_head);
+ kfree_rcu(head, rcu);
spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
}
@@ -1965,10 +1966,10 @@ void unregister_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header * header)
start_unregistering(header);
if (!--header->parent->count) {
WARN_ON(1);
- call_rcu(&header->parent->rcu, free_head);
+ kfree_rcu(header->parent, rcu);
}
if (!--header->count)
- call_rcu(&header->rcu, free_head);
+ kfree_rcu(header, rcu);
spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
}