From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753984Ab1HBL3x (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2011 07:29:53 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:54128 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753866Ab1HBL3t (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2011 07:29:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:29:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20110802.042944.2000448046653992449.davem@davemloft.net> To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, mchan@broadcom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20110802103216.GB2352@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110801091900.1027396f@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> <20110801.224401.31810103988544647.davem@davemloft.net> <20110802103216.GB2352@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Tue, 02 Aug 2011 04:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 03:32:16 -0700 > This patch does not depend on Eric's earlier patch because > RCU_INIT_POINTER() already exists. So although I would be happy to > carry this patch, there is no reason I can see not to run it up through > net-next. Either way, the Coccinelle script does look generally > useful. ;-) > > If you would prefer me to carry it, please let me know. Otherwise: > > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney I've queued it up for net-next, thanks!