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* [PATCH] blk-ioc: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()
@ 2014-08-22 12:46 Andreea-Cristina Bernat
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From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat @ 2014-08-22 12:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: axboe, linux-kernel; +Cc: paulmck

The use of "rcu_assign_pointer()" is NULLing out the pointer.
According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment:
"1.   This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer"
it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a
smaller overhead.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used:
@@
@@

- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
  (..., NULL)

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
---
 block/blk-ioc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-ioc.c b/block/blk-ioc.c
index 1a27f45..c024a77 100644
--- a/block/blk-ioc.c
+++ b/block/blk-ioc.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static void ioc_destroy_icq(struct io_cq *icq)
 	 * will.  Hint assignment itself can race safely.
 	 */
 	if (rcu_access_pointer(ioc->icq_hint) == icq)
-		rcu_assign_pointer(ioc->icq_hint, NULL);
+		RCU_INIT_POINTER(ioc->icq_hint, NULL);
 
 	ioc_exit_icq(icq);
 
-- 
1.9.1


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