Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Monam Agarwal <> | Subject | [PATCH] arch/x86: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in kvm/vmx.c | Date | Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:28:10 +0530 |
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Here rcu_assign_pointer() is ensuring that the initialization of a structure is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can always safely be converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL).
Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index 3927528..e37c0da 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -8787,7 +8787,7 @@ static void __exit vmx_exit(void) free_page((unsigned long)vmx_vmread_bitmap); #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC - rcu_assign_pointer(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss, NULL); synchronize_rcu(); #endif -- 1.7.9.5
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