Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/17] rcu: Remove return value from RCU_INIT_POINTER()

[David Howells]

Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The return value from RCU_INIT_POINTER() is not used, and using it
> would be quite ugly, for example:
> 
> 	q = RCU_INIT_POINTER(global_p, p);
> 
> To prevent this sort of ugliness from appearing, this commit wraps
> RCU_INIT_POINTER() in a do-while loop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
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