From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:50:43 +0000 (+0300) Subject: sched/fair: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER() X-Git-Tag: fixes-against-v3.18-rc2~97^2~55 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35b123e2f701b28977db2cde7dbbdb3fad28cad1;p=pandora-kernel.git sched/fair: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER() The use of "rcu_assign_pointer()" is NULLing out the pointer. According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment: "1. This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer" it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a smaller overhead. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used: @@ @@ - rcu_assign_pointer + RCU_INIT_POINTER (..., NULL) Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140822145043.GA580@ada Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed