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Message-Id: <20191003012815.12639-2-paulmck@kernel.org>
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,
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"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
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