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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:42:48 -0000 From: "tip-bot2 for Paul E. McKenney" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de> To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: [tip: core/rcu] doc: Fix typo "deference" to "dereference" The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip: Commit-ID: 6e6eca2ee79a23329093cdf8d1cc0bd86128981f Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/6e6eca2ee79a23329093cdf8d1cc0bd86128981f Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org> AuthorDate: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:12:59 -08:00 Committer: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org> CommitterDate: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:51:54 -08:00 doc: Fix typo "deference" to "dereference" Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org> --- Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt index 9c01597..b809631 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ With this change, the rcu_dereference() is always within an RCU read-side critical section, which again would have suppressed the above lockdep-RCU splat. -But in this particular case, we don't actually deference the pointer +But in this particular case, we don't actually dereference the pointer returned from rcu_dereference(). Instead, that pointer is just compared to the cic pointer, which means that the rcu_dereference() can be replaced by rcu_access_pointer() as follows:
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