From: Monam Agarwal Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 06:58:10 +0000 (+0530) Subject: arch/x86: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in kvm/vmx.c X-Git-Tag: v4.14-rc1~6622^2~55 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b63a43f1e04b935e1ce0383f78ac0f5c65433d8;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git arch/x86: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in kvm/vmx.c Here rcu_assign_pointer() is ensuring that the initialization of a structure is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can always safely be converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL). Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index 6a216e4..cad37d5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -9097,7 +9097,7 @@ static void __exit vmx_exit(void) free_page((unsigned long)vmx_vmread_bitmap); #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC - rcu_assign_pointer(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(crash_vmclear_loaded_vmcss, NULL); synchronize_rcu(); #endif