It appears the Compaq link moved to a machine at HP for a while: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_2637.html after the merger of the two, but that doesn't work either. A search of HP for "wiz_2637" (w and w/o html suffix) comes up empty. Since the reference isn't critical to the document - just remove it. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst index bb7128eb322e..f560785ad581 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! is less readable and prevents lockdep from detecting locking issues. Letting RCU-protected pointers "leak" out of an RCU read-side - critical section is every bid as bad as letting them leak out + critical section is every bit as bad as letting them leak out from under a lock. Unless, of course, you have arranged some other means of protection, such as a lock or a reference count -before- letting them out of the RCU read-side critical section. @@ -129,9 +129,7 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! accesses. The rcu_dereference() primitive ensures that the CPU picks up the pointer before it picks up the data that the pointer points to. This really is necessary - on Alpha CPUs. If you don't believe me, see: - - http://www.openvms.compaq.com/wizard/wiz_2637.html + on Alpha CPUs. The rcu_dereference() primitive is also an excellent documentation aid, letting the person reading the -- 2.17.1
