On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:54:03AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote: > deference should actually be dereference. > > Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx> Good catch. Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt > index 2044227..5cbd8b2 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 > -- > 2.10.1 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
