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

From Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo
Date 2016-10-18 09:50 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:54:03AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> deference should actually be dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>

Good catch.

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

>  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 Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> - 2016-10-18 07:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2016-10-18 09:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-10-19 08:40 +0200

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