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authorJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>2019-08-02 00:39:17 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2019-10-29 12:46:55 +0300
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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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@@ -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,