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authorJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>2019-07-11 23:45:41 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>2019-08-02 00:16:21 +0300
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treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()
The rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() API name is confusing. It is equivalent to rcu_dereference_raw() except that it also does sparse pointer checking. There are only a few users of rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(). This patches renames all of them to be rcu_dereference_raw_check() with the "_check()" indicating sparse checking. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> [ paulmck: Fix checkpatch warnings about parentheses. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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@@ -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_notrace()</tt>
+For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_check()</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,