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| author | Pranith Kumar | 2016-10-18 06:54:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney | 2016-11-14 19:39:48 +0100 |
| commit | 8cf503d3378d641f8106c1803dc68cab88cd8fca (patch) | |
| tree | b3cb50babaa6f6c09d2d16da155eeebd99d1bbf6 /Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | |
| parent | documentation: Present updated RCU guarantee (diff) | |
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Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo
deference should actually be dereference.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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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 |