linux-kernel - [tip: core/rcu] doc: Fix typo "deference" to "dereference"

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Message-ID: <157994896880.396.17967255195329015125.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
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: