From 70691d4a0bf7c871559d4ef1b0056edefbca123b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:26:05 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 01bd42ed516c..f917dec6f897 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); } -- 2.20.1