linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/12] block: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference

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Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:35:57 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, darren@...art.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	oleg@...hat.com, sbw@....edu,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/12] block: Substitute rcu_access_pointer() for rcu_dereference_raw()

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

(Trivial patch.)

If the code is looking at the RCU-protected pointer itself, but not
dereferencing it, the rcu_dereference() functions can be downgraded to
rcu_access_pointer().  This commit makes this downgrade in blkg_destroy()
and ioc_destroy_icq(), both of which simply compare the RCU-protected
pointer against another pointer with no dereferencing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
---
 block/blk-cgroup.c | 2 +-
 block/blk-ioc.c    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index 4e491d9b5292..b6e95b5e262f 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static void blkg_destroy(struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
 	 * under queue_lock.  If it's not pointing to @blkg now, it never
 	 * will.  Hint assignment itself can race safely.
 	 */
-	if (rcu_dereference_raw(blkcg->blkg_hint) == blkg)
+	if (rcu_access_pointer(blkcg->blkg_hint) == blkg)
 		rcu_assign_pointer(blkcg->blkg_hint, NULL);
 
 	/*
diff --git a/block/blk-ioc.c b/block/blk-ioc.c
index 242df01413f6..1a27f45ec776 100644
--- a/block/blk-ioc.c
+++ b/block/blk-ioc.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static void ioc_destroy_icq(struct io_cq *icq)
 	 * under queue_lock.  If it's not pointing to @icq now, it never
 	 * will.  Hint assignment itself can race safely.
 	 */
-	if (rcu_dereference_raw(ioc->icq_hint) == icq)
+	if (rcu_access_pointer(ioc->icq_hint) == icq)
 		rcu_assign_pointer(ioc->icq_hint, NULL);
 
 	ioc_exit_icq(icq);
-- 
1.8.1.5

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