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rcu: Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer()
authorAndrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Mon, 27 May 2019 08:49:57 +0000 (10:49 +0200)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:38:34 +0000 (15:38 -0700)
commit9129b017b54dab09eb69b7269026243156e5188e
tree581b8b644eea503a0a7fb9765217871e11fc2272
parent6da9f775175e516fc7229ceaa9b54f8f56aa7924
rcu: Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer()

Quoting Paul [1]:

  "Given that a quick (and perhaps error-prone) search of the uses
   of rcu_assign_pointer() in v5.1 didn't find a single use of the
   return value, let's please instead change the documentation and
   implementation to eliminate the return value."

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523135013.GL28207@linux.ibm.com

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
include/linux/rcupdate.h
tools/include/linux/rcu.h
tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/rcupdate.h