From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 14:41:01 +0000 (+0300) Subject: nvme: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER() X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=062261be4e39e35bdf2fba16a4b2d8a432ae8281;p=linux-beck.git nvme: 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 Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c index 5d44c9344522..c1e3c1a101b8 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c +++ b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c @@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ static void nvme_free_queues(struct nvme_dev *dev, int lowest) for (i = dev->queue_count - 1; i >= lowest; i--) { nvmeq = raw_nvmeq(dev, i); - rcu_assign_pointer(dev->queues[i], NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(dev->queues[i], NULL); llist_add(&nvmeq->node, &q_list); dev->queue_count--; }