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Date:   Wed,  2 Oct 2019 18:28:08 -0700
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/9] Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"

From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>

This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 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,
-- 
2.9.5