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Message-ID: <20140818151404.GA25046@ada> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:14:04 +0300 From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@...il.com> To: gleb@...nel.org, pbonzini@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: [PATCH] vmx: 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@...il.com> --- arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index 801332e..12b840c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -9029,7 +9029,7 @@ static void __exit vmx_exit(void) free_page((unsigned long)vmx_vmread_bitmap); #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC - rcu_assign_pointer(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss, NULL); synchronize_rcu(); #endif -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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