Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:43:24 -0700
From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        "open list:READ-COPY UPDATE (RCU)" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/RCU: Fix minor typo
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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
>