From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:12:59 +0000 (-0800) Subject: doc: Fix typo "deference" to "dereference" X-Git-Tag: v5.15~4620^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6e6eca2ee79a23329093cdf8d1cc0bd86128981f;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git doc: Fix typo "deference" to "dereference" Reported-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep-splat.txt index 9c01597..b809631 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: