Commit 3b63a43f authored Mar 22, 2014 by Monam Agarwal Committed by Paolo Bonzini Aug 19, 2014

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 <monamagarwal123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

parent 15fc0752

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -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