Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | paulmck@kernel ... | Subject | [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/9] Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()" | Date | Wed, 2 Oct 2019 18:28:08 -0700 |
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From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> --- 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, -- 2.9.5
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