From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:26:05 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: perf/core: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()
X-Git-Tag: v3.18-rc1~71^2~22
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=70691d4a0bf7c871559d4ef1b0056edefbca123b;p=linux.git

perf/core: 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 <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140822132605.GA20130@ada
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 01bd42ed516c..f917dec6f897 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5908,7 +5908,7 @@ static void swevent_hlist_release(struct swevent_htable *swhash)
 	if (!hlist)
 		return;
 
-	rcu_assign_pointer(swhash->swevent_hlist, NULL);
+	RCU_INIT_POINTER(swhash->swevent_hlist, NULL);
 	kfree_rcu(hlist, rcu_head);
 }