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Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo
authorPranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 04:54:03 +0000 (00:54 -0400)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:39:48 +0000 (10:39 -0800)
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>
Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt

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@@ -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