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perf/callchain: 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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140822141536.GA32051@ada
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Andreea-Cristina Bernat 2014-08-22 17:15:36 +03:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static void release_callchain_buffers(void)
struct callchain_cpus_entries *entries;
entries = callchain_cpus_entries;
rcu_assign_pointer(callchain_cpus_entries, NULL);
RCU_INIT_POINTER(callchain_cpus_entries, NULL);
call_rcu(&entries->rcu_head, release_callchain_buffers_rcu);
}