From c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 17:39:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()" This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) [ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ] [ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html index bdbc84f1b949..5a9238a2883c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html @@ -2512,7 +2512,7 @@ disabled across the entire RCU read-side critical section.

It is possible to use tracing on RCU code, but tracing itself uses RCU. -For this reason, rcu_dereference_raw_check() +For this reason, rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() is provided for use by tracing, which avoids the destructive recursion that could otherwise ensue. This API is also used by virtualization in some architectures, -- 2.45.2