Re: [PATCH] kernel: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in cgroup.c

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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:17:18AM +0530, Monam Agarwal wrote:
> This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)
> 
> The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure       
> is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. 
> And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize. 
> So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to cgroup/for-3.15.

Thanks.

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tejun
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