From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: use RCU_INIT_POINTER when NULLing
Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 10:34:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160501173429.GB21574@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462046952-30147-1-git-send-email-falakreyaz@gmail.com>
On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 01:39:12AM +0530, Muhammad Falak R Wani wrote:
> It is always safe to use RCU_INIT_POINTER to NULL a pointer. This
> results in slightly smaller/faster code.
Just fix rcu_assign_pointer to do the right thing for a NULL
argument instead.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-01 17:34 UTC|newest]
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2016-04-30 20:09 Muhammad Falak R Wani
2016-05-01 17:34 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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