doc: Update RCU requirements RCU_INIT_POINTER() description
Back in the day, RCU_INIT_POINTER() was the only way to avoid memory-barrier instructions while storing NULL to an RCU-protected pointer. Fortunately, in 2016, rcu_assign_pointer() started checking for compile-time NULL pointers and omitting the memory-barrier instructions in that case. Unfortunately, RCU's Requirements.rst document was not updated accordingly. This commit therefore at long last carries out that update. Fixes: 3a37f727 ("rcu: No ordering for rcu_assign_pointer() of NULL") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201209230755.GV7338@casper.infradead.org/Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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