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/ipv6/raw.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv6/raw.c') diff --git a/net/ipv6/raw.c b/net/ipv6/raw.c index 6a79f3081bdb..4f45dc9e4f5e 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/raw.c +++ b/net/ipv6/raw.c @@ -130,14 +130,14 @@ static mh_filter_t __rcu *mh_filter __read_mostly; int rawv6_mh_filter_register(mh_filter_t filter) { - rcu_assign_pointer(mh_filter, filter); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(mh_filter, filter); return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(rawv6_mh_filter_register); int rawv6_mh_filter_unregister(mh_filter_t filter) { - rcu_assign_pointer(mh_filter, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(mh_filter, NULL); synchronize_rcu(); return 0; } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b