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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-05-16 15:51:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-07-02 12:34:23 -0700 |
| commit | e9023c4061054cbf59c5288068118a4d0b152f01 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bd37bdc925686170b4329eca61962f1df4d3687 /include/linux | |
| parent | e5c1f444d28b1a9eaf9c3927041db0414f684ef4 (diff) | |
rcu: Remove return value from rcu_assign_pointer()
The return value from rcu_assign_pointer() is not used, and using it
would be quite ugly, for example:
q = rcu_assign_pointer(global_p, p);
To prevent this sort of ugliness from spreading, this commit wraps
rcu_assign_pointer() in a do-while loop.
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rcupdate.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index abf44d89c6c..fb8e6db511d 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -513,10 +513,10 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void) (_________p1); \ }) #define __rcu_assign_pointer(p, v, space) \ - ({ \ + do { \ smp_wmb(); \ (p) = (typeof(*v) __force space *)(v); \ - }) + } while (0) /** @@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ static inline notrace void rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(void) * * Assigns the specified value to the specified RCU-protected * pointer, ensuring that any concurrent RCU readers will see - * any prior initialization. Returns the value assigned. + * any prior initialization. * * Inserts memory barriers on architectures that require them * (which is most of them), and also prevents the compiler from |