The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip: Commit-ID: c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146 Author: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:39:17 -04:00 Committer: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:46:55 -07:00 Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()" This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ] [ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html index bdbc84f..5a9238a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html @@ -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_check()</tt> +For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_notrace()</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,
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