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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [ paulmck: From rcu_replace() to rcu_replace_pointer() per Ingo Molnar. ] Signed-off-by: Paul 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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