rcu: No ordering for rcu_assign_pointer() of NULL

This commit does a compile-time check for rcu_assign_pointer() of NULL,
and uses WRITE_ONCE() rather than smp_store_release() in that case.

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney 2016-05-01 18:46:54 -07:00
commit 3a37f7275c