Re: [PATCH] mac80211: scan: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Tue Aug 26 2014 - 05:18:36 EST


On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 16:14 +0300, Andreea-Cristina Bernat wrote:
> 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.

Applied, thanks.

johannes

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