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[PATCH kernel] rcu: Fix comment for rcu_dereference_raw_notrace

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rcu_dereference_raw() calls indirectly rcu_read_lock_held() while
rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() does not so fix the comment about the latter.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 581abf8..931d627 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
  * The tracing infrastructure traces RCU (we want that), but unfortunately
  * some of the RCU checks causes tracing to lock up the system.
  *
- * The tracing version of rcu_dereference_raw() must not call
+ * The no-tracing version of rcu_dereference_raw() must not call
  * rcu_read_lock_held().
  */
 #define rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(p) __rcu_dereference_check((p), 1, __rcu)
-- 
2.5.0.rc3

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[PATCH kernel] rcu: Fix comment for rcu_dereference_raw_notrace Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> - 2015-11-02 03:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH kernel] rcu: Fix comment for rcu_dereference_raw_notrace "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-11-02 04:20 +0100

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