Re: [PATCH] Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo

2016-10-19 Thread Paul E. McKenney 
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:43:24AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:54:03AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> > deference should actually be dereference.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar 
> 
> Good catch.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 

Applied, thank you both!

Thanx, Paul

> >  Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt 
> > b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
> > index 2044227..5cbd8b2 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
> > -- 
> > 2.10.1
> > 
> 

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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo

2016-10-18 Thread Josh Triplett 
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:54:03AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> deference should actually be dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar 

Good catch.

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 

>  Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
> index 2044227..5cbd8b2 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
> -- 
> 2.10.1
> 
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[PATCH] Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo

2016-10-17 Thread Pranith Kumar 
deference should actually be dereference.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar 
---
 Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index 2044227..5cbd8b2 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
-- 
2.10.1

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