From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932562AbaIIOyD (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 10:54:03 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41073 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753009AbaIIOyA (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 10:54:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 07:53:08 -0700 From: tip-bot for Andreea-Cristina Bernat Message-ID: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, acme@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, bernat.ada@gmail.com Reply-To: mingo@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de, acme@kernel.org, bernat.ada@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20140822132605.GA20130@ada> References: <20140822132605.GA20130@ada> To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf/core: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER() Git-Commit-ID: 70691d4a0bf7c871559d4ef1b0056edefbca123b X-Mailer: tip-git-log-daemon Robot-ID: Robot-Unsubscribe: Contact to get blacklisted from these emails MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Commit-ID: 70691d4a0bf7c871559d4ef1b0056edefbca123b Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/70691d4a0bf7c871559d4ef1b0056edefbca123b Author: Andreea-Cristina Bernat AuthorDate: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:26:05 +0300 Committer: Ingo Molnar CommitDate: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 06:53:05 +0200 perf/core: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER() 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140822132605.GA20130@ada Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 01bd42e..f917dec 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -5908,7 +5908,7 @@ static void swevent_hlist_release(struct swevent_htable *swhash) if (!hlist) return; - rcu_assign_pointer(swhash->swevent_hlist, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(swhash->swevent_hlist, NULL); kfree_rcu(hlist, rcu_head); }