linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/12] rcu: Remove rcu_swap

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Date:   Mon,  9 Dec 2019 20:07:30 -0800
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@....com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/12] rcu: Remove rcu_swap_protected()

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

Now that the calls to rcu_swap_protected() have been replaced by
rcu_replace_pointer(), this commit removes rcu_swap_protected().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiAsJLw1egFEE=Z7-GGtM6wcvtyytXZA1+BHqta4gg6Hw@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Cc: Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@....com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h | 16 ----------------
 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 0b75063..fe47024 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -401,22 +401,6 @@ do {									      \
 })
 
 /**
- * rcu_swap_protected() - swap an RCU and a regular pointer
- * @rcu_ptr: RCU pointer
- * @ptr: regular pointer
- * @c: the conditions under which the dereference will take place
- *
- * Perform swap(@rcu_ptr, @ptr) where @rcu_ptr is an RCU-annotated pointer and
- * @c is the argument that is passed to the rcu_dereference_protected() call
- * used to read that pointer.
- */
-#define rcu_swap_protected(rcu_ptr, ptr, c) do {			\
-	typeof(ptr) __tmp = rcu_dereference_protected((rcu_ptr), (c));	\
-	rcu_assign_pointer((rcu_ptr), (ptr));				\
-	(ptr) = __tmp;							\
-} while (0)
-
-/**
  * rcu_access_pointer() - fetch RCU pointer with no dereferencing
  * @p: The pointer to read
  *
-- 
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