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Message-Id: <20190801213922.158860-3-joel@joelfernandes.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 17:39:17 -0400
From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>, rcu@...r.kernel.org
Subject: ['PATCH v2' 2/7] Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"
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
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