From: paulmck@kernel.org
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"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 7/7] doc: Fix typo s/deference/dereference/
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 19:56:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191210035641.2226-7-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191210035539.GA792@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt
index 9c01597..b809631 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ With this change, the rcu_dereference() is always within an RCU
read-side critical section, which again would have suppressed the
above lockdep-RCU splat.
-But in this particular case, we don't actually deference the pointer
+But in this particular case, we don't actually dereference the pointer
returned from rcu_dereference(). Instead, that pointer is just compared
to the cic pointer, which means that the rcu_dereference() can be replaced
by rcu_access_pointer() as follows:
--
2.9.5
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-10 3:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-10 3:55 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/7] Documentation updates for v5.6 Paul E. McKenney
2019-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/7] doc: Convert arrayRCU.txt to arrayRCU.rst paulmck
2019-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/7] doc: Converted NMI-RCU.txt to NMI-RCU.rst paulmck
2019-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/7] doc: Convert whatisRCU.txt to .rst paulmck
2019-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/7] doc: Convert to rcu_dereference.txt to rcu_dereference.rst paulmck
2019-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/7] doc: Convert to rcubarrier.txt to ReST paulmck
2019-12-10 3:56 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/7] doc: Updated full list of RCU API in whatisRCU.rst paulmck
2019-12-10 3:56 ` paulmck [this message]
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