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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-11-23 12:04:28 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-11-23 12:04:28 +0300 |
| commit | af91a81131aee3e233a977632a23b839857a327b (patch) | |
| tree | 9b46f8a8ad9e5df08dab110d5e8aac1544ef36fa /Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | |
| parent | 23400ac997062647f2b63c82030d189671b1effe (diff) | |
| parent | 6190aaafd06cd3db77f1d7343bd097f6bd526727 (diff) | |
| download | linux-af91a81131aee3e233a977632a23b839857a327b.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
- Documentation updates, yet again just simple changes.
- Miscellaneous fixes, including a change to call_rcu()'s
rcu_head alignment check.
- Security-motivated list consistency checks, which are
disabled by default behind DEBUG_LIST.
- Torture-test updates.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index 204422719197..5cbd8b2395b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ rcu_dereference() The reader uses rcu_dereference() to fetch an RCU-protected pointer, which returns a value that may then be safely - dereferenced. Note that rcu_deference() does not actually + dereferenced. Note that rcu_dereference() does not actually dereference the pointer, instead, it protects the pointer for later dereferencing. It also executes any needed memory-barrier instructions for a given CPU architecture. Currently, only Alpha |