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

[Josh Triplett]

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@xxxxxxxxx>

Good catch.

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  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
>