| From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/17] rcu: Remove return value from RCU_INIT_POINTER() | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:06:21 +0100 |
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Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > The return value from RCU_INIT_POINTER() is not used, and using it > would be quite ugly, for example: > > q = RCU_INIT_POINTER(global_p, p); > > To prevent this sort of ugliness from appearing, this commit wraps > RCU_INIT_POINTER() in a do-while loop. > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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