linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: remove all rcu head initializations

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Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 12:09:32 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com
Subject: [PATCH] mm: remove all rcu head initializations

Hello!

Would you guys like to carry this patch, or should I push it up
-tip?  If I don't hear otherwise from you, I will push it up -tip.
The INIT_RCU_HEAD() primitive is going away in favor of debugobjects.

							Thanx, Paul

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mm: remove all rcu head initializations

Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing
it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can
keep track of objects on stack.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 707d0dc..f03d8d6 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -663,7 +663,6 @@ int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 	bdi->max_ratio = 100;
 	bdi->max_prop_frac = PROP_FRAC_BASE;
 	spin_lock_init(&bdi->wb_lock);
-	INIT_RCU_HEAD(&bdi->rcu_head);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdi->bdi_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdi->wb_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bdi->work_list);
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index 837ebd6..6de238d 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -647,7 +647,6 @@ void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *c, void *b)
 	if (unlikely(c->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) {
 		struct slob_rcu *slob_rcu;
 		slob_rcu = b + (c->size - sizeof(struct slob_rcu));
-		INIT_RCU_HEAD(&slob_rcu->head);
 		slob_rcu->size = c->size;
 		call_rcu(&slob_rcu->head, kmem_rcu_free);
 	} else {
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