From a9b3cd7f323b2e57593e7215362a7b02fc933e3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:19:00 +0000 Subject: rcu: convert uses of rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) to RCU_INIT_POINTER When assigning a NULL value to an RCU protected pointer, no barrier is needed. The rcu_assign_pointer, used to handle that but will soon change to not handle the special case. Convert all rcu_assign_pointer of NULL value. //smpl @@ expression P; @@ - rcu_assign_pointer(P, NULL) + RCU_INIT_POINTER(P, NULL) // Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/core/dev.c') diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 17d67b5..9428766 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -3094,8 +3094,8 @@ void netdev_rx_handler_unregister(struct net_device *dev) { ASSERT_RTNL(); - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->rx_handler, NULL); - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->rx_handler_data, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->rx_handler, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->rx_handler_data, NULL); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(netdev_rx_handler_unregister); -- cgit v1.1