Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: don't use INIT_RCU_HEAD

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:29:06 +0100

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> call_rcu() will unconditionally rewrite RCU head anyway.
> Applies to 
> 	struct neigh_parms
> 	struct neigh_table
> 	struct net
> 	struct cipso_v4_doi
> 	struct in_ifaddr
> 	struct in_device
> 	rt->u.dst

It would probably make sense to get a statement from Paul
whether this might be required in the future, f.i. for some
debugging feature.