From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751061AbaCWTIX (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:08:23 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:37834 "EHLO mail-pb0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbaCWTIW (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:08:22 -0400 From: Monam Agarwal To: rostedt@goodmis.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] kernel/trace: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in trace_syscalls.c Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:37:21 +0530 Message-Id: <1395601641-12227-1-git-send-email-monamagarwal123@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize. So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL) Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal --- kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c index 759d5e0..4dc8b79 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ static void unreg_event_syscall_enter(struct ftrace_event_file *file, return; mutex_lock(&syscall_trace_lock); tr->sys_refcount_enter--; - rcu_assign_pointer(tr->enter_syscall_files[num], NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(tr->enter_syscall_files[num], NULL); if (!tr->sys_refcount_enter) unregister_trace_sys_enter(ftrace_syscall_enter, tr); mutex_unlock(&syscall_trace_lock); @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ static void unreg_event_syscall_exit(struct ftrace_event_file *file, return; mutex_lock(&syscall_trace_lock); tr->sys_refcount_exit--; - rcu_assign_pointer(tr->exit_syscall_files[num], NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(tr->exit_syscall_files[num], NULL); if (!tr->sys_refcount_exit) unregister_trace_sys_exit(ftrace_syscall_exit, tr); mutex_unlock(&syscall_trace_lock); -- 1.7.9.5