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SubjectRe: [PATCH kernel] rcu: Fix comment for rcu_dereference_raw_notrace
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 01:21:47PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> rcu_dereference_raw() calls indirectly rcu_read_lock_held() while
> rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() does not so fix the comment about the latter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>

Good eyes! Queued for 4.5, thank you!

Thanx, Paul

> ---
> include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 581abf8..931d627 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
> * The tracing infrastructure traces RCU (we want that), but unfortunately
> * some of the RCU checks causes tracing to lock up the system.
> *
> - * The tracing version of rcu_dereference_raw() must not call
> + * The no-tracing version of rcu_dereference_raw() must not call
> * rcu_read_lock_held().
> */
> #define rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(p) __rcu_dereference_check((p), 1, __rcu)
> --
> 2.5.0.rc3
>



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