On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 21:41 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure
> is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure.
> In the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize,
> so we can safely drop smp_wmb in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
>
> --
>
> Lightly tested.
> v is evaluated twice here but that should be ok since this
> only happens when v is a constant, so evaluating it should
> have no side effects.
> Paul, what do you think?
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 72bf3a0..d33c9ec 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -587,7 +587,8 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
> */
> #define rcu_assign_pointer(p, v) \
> do { \
> - smp_wmb(); \
> + if (!__builtin_constant_p(v) || (v)) \
> + smp_wmb(); \
> ACCESS_ONCE(p) = RCU_INITIALIZER(v); \
> } while (0)
>
Yeah, I suggest you read d322f45ceed525daa changelog ;)
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