[PATCH 5/7] docs: this_cpu_ops: Fix SRCU helper names
From: Karl Mehltretter
Date: Sat Aug 22 2026 - 08:19:51 EST
Use the actual srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() and atomic_long_inc()
helper names.
Fixes: df0cee43114b ("docs: Improve discussion of this_cpu_ptr(), add raw_cpu_ptr()")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/core-api/this_cpu_ops.rst | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/this_cpu_ops.rst b/Documentation/core-api/this_cpu_ops.rst
index 533ac5dd57507..367706d1714b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/this_cpu_ops.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/this_cpu_ops.rst
@@ -150,10 +150,10 @@ preemptible code are addressed by raw_cpu_ptr(), but such use cases need
to handle cases where two different CPUs are accessing the same per cpu
variable, which might well be that of a third CPU. These use cases are
typically performance optimizations. For example, SRCU implements a pair
-of counters as a pair of per-CPU variables, and rcu_read_lock_nmisafe()
+of counters as a pair of per-CPU variables, and srcu_read_lock_nmisafe()
uses raw_cpu_ptr() to get a pointer to some CPU's counter, and uses
-atomic_inc_long() to handle migration between the raw_cpu_ptr() and
-the atomic_inc_long().
+atomic_long_inc() to handle migration between the raw_cpu_ptr() and
+the atomic_long_inc().
Per cpu variables and offsets
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2.53.0