rcu: Don't return a value from rcu_assign_pointer()

Quoting Paul [1]:

  "Given that a quick (and perhaps error-prone) search of the uses
   of rcu_assign_pointer() in v5.1 didn't find a single use of the
   return value, let's please instead change the documentation and
   implementation to eliminate the return value."

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523135013.GL28207@linux.ibm.com

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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Andrea Parri 2019-05-27 10:49:57 +02:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 6da9f77517
commit 9129b017b5
4 changed files with 9 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void) { }
* other macros that it invokes.
*/
#define rcu_assign_pointer(p, v) \
({ \
do { \
uintptr_t _r_a_p__v = (uintptr_t)(v); \
rcu_check_sparse(p, __rcu); \
\
@ -375,8 +375,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void) { }
WRITE_ONCE((p), (typeof(p))(_r_a_p__v)); \
else \
smp_store_release(&p, RCU_INITIALIZER((typeof(p))_r_a_p__v)); \
_r_a_p__v; \
})
} while (0)
/**
* rcu_swap_protected() - swap an RCU and a regular pointer