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treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() to _check()

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The rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() API name is confusing.  It is equivalent
to rcu_dereference_raw() except that it also does sparse pointer checking.

There are only a few users of rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(). This patches
renames all of them to be rcu_dereference_raw_check() with the "_check()"
indicating sparse checking.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Fix checkpatch warnings about parentheses. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-07-11 16:45:41 -04:00
committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 609488bc97
commit 0a5b99f578
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@@ -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_notrace()</tt>
For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_check()</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,