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Commit a63fc6b7 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: Upgrade rcu_swap_protected() to rcu_replace_pointer()



Although the rcu_swap_protected() macro follows the example of
swap(), the interactions with RCU make its update of its argument
somewhat counter-intuitive.  This commit therefore introduces
an rcu_replace_pointer() that returns the old value of the RCU
pointer instead of doing the argument update.  Once all the uses of
rcu_swap_protected() are updated to instead use rcu_replace_pointer(),
rcu_swap_protected() will be removed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiAsJLw1egFEE=Z7-GGtM6wcvtyytXZA1+BHqta4gg6Hw@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[ paulmck: From rcu_replace() to rcu_replace_pointer() per Ingo Molnar. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@hpe.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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