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authorPranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>2016-10-18 00:54:03 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-11-14 10:39:48 -0800
commit8cf503d3378d641f8106c1803dc68cab88cd8fca (patch)
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parente2c85cb12c86b080ee344928618eb918fa227ac8 (diff)
Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo
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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
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+++ 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