From 70691d4a0bf7c871559d4ef1b0056edefbca123b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:26:05 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: 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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140822132605.GA20130@ada Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed