Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Mar 2014 08:50:08 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lib: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in idr.c |
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:40:08AM +0530, Monam Agarwal wrote: > This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) > > The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure > is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. > And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize. > So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL) > > Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks.
-- tejun
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