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| author | Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> | 2019-07-11 16:45:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> | 2019-08-01 14:16:21 -0700 |
| commit | 0a5b99f57873e233ad42ef71e23c629f6ea1fcfe (patch) | |
| tree | 8174c053698eec78eb878e74d947fd8cafa8b126 /Documentation | |
| parent | 609488bc979f99f805f34e9a32c1e3b71179d10b (diff) | |
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treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()
The rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() API name is confusing. It is equivalent
to rcu_dereference_raw() except that it also does sparse pointer checking.
There are only a few users of rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(). This patches
renames all of them to be rcu_dereference_raw_check() with the "_check()"
indicating sparse checking.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Fix checkpatch warnings about parentheses. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html index 5a9238a2883c..bdbc84f1b949 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. <p> It is possible to use tracing on RCU code, but tracing itself uses RCU. -For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_notrace()</tt> +For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_check()</tt> 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, |