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| author | Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> | 2016-10-18 07:54:03 +0300 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-11-14 21:39:48 +0300 |
| commit | 8cf503d3378d641f8106c1803dc68cab88cd8fca (patch) | |
| tree | b3cb50babaa6f6c09d2d16da155eeebd99d1bbf6 /Documentation/RCU | |
| parent | e2c85cb12c86b080ee344928618eb918fa227ac8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8cf503d3378d641f8106c1803dc68cab88cd8fca.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 2 |
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 |