netdev - Re: |PATCH net-next] net: treewide use of RCU_INIT

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Message-Id: <20111123.190817.2280105658719138407.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:08:17 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: |PATCH net-next] net: treewide use of RCU_INIT_POINTER

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:09:32 +0100

> rcu_assign_pointer(ptr, NULL) can be safely replaced by
> RCU_INIT_POINTER(ptr, NULL)
> 
> (old rcu_assign_pointer() macro was testing the NULL value and could
> omit the smp_wmb(), but this had to be removed because of compiler
> warnings)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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