RCU heads really don't need to be initialized. Their state before call_rcu() really does not matter. We need to keep init/destroy_rcu_head_on_stack() though, since we want debugobjects to be able to keep track of these objects. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers CC: David S. Miller CC: "Paul E. McKenney" CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org CC: mingo@elte.hu CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com CC: josh@joshtriplett.org CC: dvhltc@us.ibm.com CC: niv@us.ibm.com CC: tglx@linutronix.de CC: peterz@infradead.org CC: rostedt@goodmis.org CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: dhowells@redhat.com CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com CC: Alexey Dobriyan --- include/linux/rcupdate.h | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) Index: linux.trees.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h =================================================================== --- linux.trees.git.orig/include/linux/rcupdate.h 2010-03-29 10:11:32.000000000 -0400 +++ linux.trees.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h 2010-03-29 10:11:42.000000000 -0400 @@ -77,12 +77,6 @@ extern void rcu_scheduler_starting(void) #error "Unknown RCU implementation specified to kernel configuration" #endif -#define RCU_HEAD_INIT { .next = NULL, .func = NULL } -#define RCU_HEAD(head) struct rcu_head head = RCU_HEAD_INIT -#define INIT_RCU_HEAD(ptr) do { \ - (ptr)->next = NULL; (ptr)->func = NULL; \ -} while (0) - static inline void init_rcu_head_on_stack(struct rcu_head *head) { } -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/