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:
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- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
(..., NULL)
Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140822132605.GA20130@ada
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
if (!hlist)
return;
- rcu_assign_pointer(swhash->swevent_hlist, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(swhash->swevent_hlist, NULL);
kfree_rcu(hlist, rcu_head);
}