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| author | Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> | 2014-01-08 13:43:23 +0800 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> | 2014-01-08 15:31:36 +0100 |
| commit | bb3fec146c8561441db058db07b3fbdd7fe7e1df (patch) | |
| tree | 4ec8e389084149ebf95831cef14de002dddb5055 /drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c | |
| parent | 5af2b6351b3cc0dadd6888928005a61f2667c80d (diff) | |
ACPICA: Remove unused ACPI_FREE_BUFFER macro. No functional change.
This macro is no longer used by ACPICA and it is not public.
Also update comments related to the use of ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER and
the use of acpi_os_free (kfree is equivalent and prefered in the
kernel) to free the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c index e973e311f856..1f0c28ba50df 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsxfeval.c @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ acpi_evaluate_object_typed(acpi_handle handle, acpi_object_type return_type) { acpi_status status; - u8 must_free = FALSE; + u8 free_buffer_on_error = FALSE; ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE(acpi_evaluate_object_typed); @@ -95,14 +95,13 @@ acpi_evaluate_object_typed(acpi_handle handle, } if (return_buffer->length == ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER) { - must_free = TRUE; + free_buffer_on_error = TRUE; } /* Evaluate the object */ - status = - acpi_evaluate_object(handle, pathname, external_params, - return_buffer); + status = acpi_evaluate_object(handle, pathname, + external_params, return_buffer); if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { return_ACPI_STATUS(status); } @@ -135,11 +134,15 @@ acpi_evaluate_object_typed(acpi_handle handle, pointer)->type), acpi_ut_get_type_name(return_type))); - if (must_free) { - - /* Caller used ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, free the return buffer */ - - ACPI_FREE_BUFFER(*return_buffer); + if (free_buffer_on_error) { + /* + * Free a buffer created via ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER. + * Note: We use acpi_os_free here because acpi_os_allocate was used + * to allocate the buffer. This purposefully bypasses the + * (optionally enabled) allocation tracking mechanism since we + * only want to track internal allocations. + */ + acpi_os_free(return_buffer->pointer); return_buffer->pointer = NULL; } |