From e0455e194a5e0cf49bc7596a20d4f7e47995b9c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:15:36 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] perf/callchain: 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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140822141536.GA32051@ada Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/callchain.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c index 97b67df8fbfe..f2a88de87a49 100644 --- a/kernel/events/callchain.c +++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static void release_callchain_buffers(void) struct callchain_cpus_entries *entries; entries = callchain_cpus_entries; - rcu_assign_pointer(callchain_cpus_entries, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(callchain_cpus_entries, NULL); call_rcu(&entries->rcu_head, release_callchain_buffers_rcu); }