linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 04/11] powerpc: remove all rcu head initializations

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Date:	Tue, 11 May 2010 16:32:59 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, dvhltc@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 04/11] powerpc: 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>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
index ebc2f38..2c7e801 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ static void pte_free_rcu_callback(struct rcu_head *head)
 
 static void pte_free_submit(struct pte_freelist_batch *batch)
 {
-	INIT_RCU_HEAD(&batch->rcu);
 	call_rcu(&batch->rcu, pte_free_rcu_callback);
 }
 
-- 
1.7.0.6

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