* [tip: core/rcu] Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"
@ 2019-10-31 11:55 tip-bot2 for Joel Fernandes (Google)
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The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip:
Commit-ID: c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146
Author: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:39:17 -04:00
Committer: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:46:55 -07:00
Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"
This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
index bdbc84f..5a9238a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
@@ -2512,7 +2512,7 @@ disabled across the entire RCU read-side critical section.
<p>
It is possible to use tracing on RCU code, but tracing itself
uses RCU.
-For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_check()</tt>
+For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_notrace()</tt>
is provided for use by tracing, which avoids the destructive
recursion that could otherwise ensue.
This API is also used by virtualization in some architectures,
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