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Date:   Mon, 15 Oct 2018 10:36:33 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: rcu: Fix code listing in performance and
 scalability requirements
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 07:29:42PM -0700, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> The code listing under this section has a quick quiz that says line 19
> uses rcu_access_pointer, but the code listing itself does not. Fix this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>

Good eyes!  Queued for the merge window after this coming one,
thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  .../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html    |  2 +-
>  kernel/sys.c                                     | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
> index 4fae55056c1d..f74a2233865c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
> +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
> @@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ used in place of <tt>synchronize_rcu()</tt> as follows:
>  16   struct foo *p;
>  17
>  18   spin_lock(&amp;gp_lock);
> -19   p = rcu_dereference(gp);
> +19   p = rcu_access_pointer(gp);
>  20   if (!p) {
>  21     spin_unlock(&amp;gp_lock);
>  22     return false;
> -- 
> 2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog
>