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From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
To: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <eddie.wai@broadcom.com>,
	<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,NULL)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:58:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <532B022C.8010505@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1395324808.git.monamagarwal123@gmail.com>

On 20/03/14 15:37, Monam Agarwal wrote:
> This patchset uses following coccinelle script to replace
> rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,NULL)
>
> @@
> expression E;
> @@
> - rcu_assign_pointer(
> + RCU_INIT_POINTER(
> E, NULL)

I am not very familiar with rcu functionality nor coccinelle, but it 
looks too generic. I would think only NULL assignments during 
initialization should use RCU_INIT_POINTER(). The first patch in the 
series does it in a function called unregister_...(). Is it really ok to 
do there?

Gr. AvS


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-20 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-20 14:37 [PATCH 0/9] Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,NULL) Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:38 ` [PATCH 1/9] net/ethernet: Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:39 ` [PATCH 2/9] net/ethernet: Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:40 ` [PATCH 3/9] net: Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in drivers/net/macvtap.c Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] net: Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:42 ` [PATCH 5/9] net/wireless: Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/main.c Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:44 ` [PATCH 6/9] scsi: Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_libfc.c Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:45 ` [PATCH 7/9] target: Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in drivers/target/tcm_fc/tfc_sess.c Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:46 ` [PATCH 8/9] vhost: Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in drivers/vhost/net.c Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:46 ` [PATCH 9/9] vhost: Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in test.c Monam Agarwal
2014-03-20 14:58 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2014-03-20 15:06   ` [PATCH 0/9] Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x,NULL) Paul E. McKenney
2014-03-20 16:26     ` Arend van Spriel
2014-03-20 21:04 ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-18 22:39 Monam Agarwal

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