Re: [PATCH] block: partition: use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for NULLing.

From	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] block: partition: use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for NULLing.
Date	2016-05-05 20:40 +0200
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On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 11:24:06PM +0530, Muhammad Falak R Wani wrote:
> It is safe to use RCU_INIT_POINTER() to NULL, instead of
> rcu_assign_pointer().
> This results in slightly smaller/faster code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>

Muhammad,

please stop sending these patches.  They make the code less reusbale,
and we (or rather Paul) are working on making rcu_assign_pointer do
the right thing.

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[PATCH] block: partition: use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for NULLing. Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 20:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] block: partition: use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for NULLing. Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 20:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] block: partition: use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for NULLing. Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-05-05 20:40 +0200

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