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Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] Documentation: Fix invalid rcu assumptions
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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, David Howells wrote:

> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > -197          * we use RCU protection here
> > +196          * caller must be holding the RCU readlocke
> 
> You mean "readlock" I suspect.

Or maybe he's talking about ye olde readlocke, used widely for OS research 
throughout the middle ages. You still find that spelling in some really 
old CS literature.

			Linus