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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt index 9c015976b174..b8096316fd11 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ With this change, the rcu_dereference() is always within an RCU read-side critical section, which again would have suppressed the above lockdep-RCU splat. -But in this particular case, we don't actually deference the pointer +But in this particular case, we don't actually dereference the pointer returned from rcu_dereference(). Instead, that pointer is just compared to the cic pointer, which means that the rcu_dereference() can be replaced by rcu_access_pointer() as follows: |