From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>,
rcu@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ['PATCH v2' 2/7] Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 17:39:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190801213922.158860-3-joel@joelfernandes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190801213922.158860-1-joel@joelfernandes.org>
This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e.
---
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 bdbc84f1b949..5a9238a2883c 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,
--
2.22.0.770.g0f2c4a37fd-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-01 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-01 21:39 [PATCH v2 0/7] Doc updates to /dev branch Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 21:39 ` ['PATCH v2' 1/7] Revert docs from "rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 21:39 ` Joel Fernandes (Google) [this message]
2019-08-01 21:39 ` ['PATCH v2' 4/7] docs: rcu: Correct links referring to titles Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 21:39 ` ['PATCH v2' 5/7] docs: rcu: Increase toctree to 3 Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 21:39 ` ['PATCH v2' 6/7] Restore docs "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 21:39 ` ['PATCH v2' 7/7] Restore docs "rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()" Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-08-01 21:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Doc updates to /dev branch Joel Fernandes
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