From a9b3cd7f323b2e57593e7215362a7b02fc933e3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:19:00 +0000 Subject: rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon change to not handle the special case. Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value. //smpl @@ expression P; @@ - rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL) + RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL) // Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/core/net-sysfs.c') diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c index 1683e5db2f27..b1ab887520a8 100644 --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c @@ -987,10 +987,10 @@ static ssize_t store_xps_map(struct netdev_queue *queue, } if (nonempty) - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->xps_maps, new_dev_maps); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->xps_maps, new_dev_maps); else { kfree(new_dev_maps); - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->xps_maps, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->xps_maps, NULL); } if (dev_maps) -- cgit v1.2.3