[tip: core/rcu] Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"

From: tip-bot2 for Joel Fernandes (Google)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2019 - 07:57:34 EST


The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip:

Commit-ID: c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/c07e6f36bc321d70e8255c30d327e299b8301146
Author: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:39:17 -04:00
Committer: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 02:46:55 -07:00

Revert docs from "treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()"

This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
index bdbc84f..5a9238a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
@@ -2512,7 +2512,7 @@ disabled across the entire RCU read-side critical section.
<p>
It is possible to use tracing on RCU code, but tracing itself
uses RCU.
-For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_check()</tt>
+For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_notrace()</tt>
is provided for use by tracing, which avoids the destructive
recursion that could otherwise ensue.
This API is also used by virtualization in some architectures,