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doc: Fix typo "deference" to "dereference"
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Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Paul E. McKenney committed Dec 11, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ With this change, the rcu_dereference() is always within an RCU
read-side critical section, which again would have suppressed the
above lockdep-RCU splat.

But in this particular case, we don't actually deference the pointer
But in this particular case, we don't actually dereference the pointer
returned from rcu_dereference(). Instead, that pointer is just compared
to the cic pointer, which means that the rcu_dereference() can be replaced
by rcu_access_pointer() as follows:
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