doc: Fix typo "deference" to "dereference"
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:12:59 +0000 (09:12 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:51:54 +0000 (18:51 -0800)
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt

index 9c01597..b809631 100644 (file)
@@ -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: