On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 06:22:01PM +0530, Muhammad Falak R Wani wrote: > It is safe to use RCU_INIT_POINTER() to NULL, instead of > rcu_assign_pointer(). > This results in slightly smaller/faster code.
If this is indeed the case, rcu_assign_pointer should simply check for NULL using __builtin_constant_p and do the right thing transparently instead of burdening it on every user.
