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| author |   Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> | 2019-08-01 17:39:17 -0400 |
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| committer |   Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2019-10-29 02:46:55 -0700 |
| commit | c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146 (patch) | |
| tree | d3da450a131b44cfcb18a9b1fdb7841d19169908 /Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | |
| parent | Revert docs from "rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()" (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146.tar.xz linux-dev-c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146.zip | |
Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"
This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html index bdbc84f1b949..5a9238a2883c 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, |