Re: [patch 8/9] Documentation: Fix invalid rcu assumptions

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Dec 11 2009 - 11:10:44 EST




On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, David Howells wrote:

> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > -197 * we use RCU protection here
> > +196 * caller must be holding the RCU readlocke
>
> You mean "readlock" I suspect.

Or maybe he's talking about ye olde readlocke, used widely for OS research
throughout the middle ages. You still find that spelling in some really
old CS literature.

Linus
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