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/ipv4/devinet.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/devinet.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index bc19bd06dd00..c6b5092f29a1 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static struct in_device *inetdev_init(struct net_device *dev) ip_mc_up(in_dev); /* we can receive as soon as ip_ptr is set -- do this last */ - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip_ptr, in_dev); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip_ptr, in_dev); out: return in_dev; out_kfree: @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static void inetdev_destroy(struct in_device *in_dev) inet_free_ifa(ifa); } - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip_ptr, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip_ptr, NULL); devinet_sysctl_unregister(in_dev); neigh_parms_release(&arp_tbl, in_dev->arp_parms); @@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event, switch (event) { case NETDEV_REGISTER: printk(KERN_DEBUG "inetdev_event: bug\n"); - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->ip_ptr, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->ip_ptr, NULL); break; case NETDEV_UP: if (!inetdev_valid_mtu(dev->mtu)) -- cgit v1.2.3