On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 05:38:49PM +0000, Simmons, James A. wrote:
> >From: Julia Lawall <julia.law...@lip6.fr>
> >
> >Replace OBD_ALLOC, OBD_ALLOC_WAIT, OBD_ALLOC_PTR, and OBD_ALLOC_PTR_WAIT by
> >kalloc/kcalloc, and OBD_FREE and OBD_FREE_PTR by kfree.
> 
> Nak: James Simmons <jsimm...@infradead.org>
> 
> A simple replace will not work. The OBD_ALLOC and OBD_FREE functions allocate 
> memory
> anywhere from one page to 4MB in size.

OBD_FREE() just calls kfree(), it does not allocate any memory, so that
replacement is always ok.

thanks,

greg k-h
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