[Bridge] [PATCH] br_multicast: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Aug 22 19:28:31 UTC 2014


From: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:06:09 +0300

> 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.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada at gmail.com>

Applied.


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