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Message-ID: <157252290285.29376.11620445328486959685.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date:   Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:55:02 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Joel Fernandes (Google)" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: core/rcu] Revert docs from "treewide: Rename
 rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"

The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146
Author:        Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:39:17 -04:00
Committer:     Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:46:55 -07:00

Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"

This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 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,