The patch titled Subject: epoll: cleanup: use RCU_INIT_POINTER when nulling has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was epoll-cleanup-use-rcu_init_pointer-when-nulling.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> Subject: epoll: cleanup: use RCU_INIT_POINTER when nulling It is always safe to use RCU_INIT_POINTER to NULL a pointer. This results in slightly smaller/faster code. Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/eventpoll.c~epoll-cleanup-use-rcu_init_pointer-when-nulling fs/eventpoll.c --- a/fs/eventpoll.c~epoll-cleanup-use-rcu_init_pointer-when-nulling +++ a/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ static noinline void ep_destroy_wakeup_s { struct wakeup_source *ws = ep_wakeup_source(epi); - rcu_assign_pointer(epi->ws, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(epi->ws, NULL); /* * wait for ep_pm_stay_awake_rcu to finish, synchronize_rcu is _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from normalperson@xxxxxxxx are origin.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html