[PATCH 02/16] doc: memory-barriers.txt: Document use of lockless_dereference()

[Pranith Kumar]

Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of
hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index 3d5f49b..841ac36 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ There are some minimal guarantees that may be expected of a CPU:
      and always in that order.  On most systems, smp_read_barrier_depends()
      does nothing, but it is required for DEC Alpha.  The ACCESS_ONCE()
      is required to prevent compiler mischief.  Please note that you
-     should normally use something like rcu_dereference() instead of
+     should normally use something like lockless_dereference() instead of
      open-coding smp_read_barrier_depends().
 
  (*) Overlapping loads and stores within a particular CPU will appear to be
-- 
1.9.1

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