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perf/core: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()

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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@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140822132605.GA20130@ada
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Andreea-Cristina Bernat 2014-08-22 16:26:05 +03:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent e0455e194a
commit 70691d4a0b
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@ -5908,7 +5908,7 @@ static void swevent_hlist_release(struct swevent_htable *swhash)
if (!hlist)
return;
rcu_assign_pointer(swhash->swevent_hlist, NULL);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(swhash->swevent_hlist, NULL);
kfree_rcu(hlist, rcu_head);
}