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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt2
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
index 2f0fcb2..f29bcbc 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
@@ -2451,8 +2451,8 @@ lot of {Linux} into your technology!!!"
,month="February"
,year="2010"
,note="Available:
-\url{http://kerneltrap.com/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/2/26/6270589}
-[Viewed March 20, 2011]"
+\url{http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/153338}
+[Viewed June 9, 2014]"
,annotation={
Use a pair of list_head structures to support RCU-protected
resizable hash tables.
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt
index 141d531..613033f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
Reference-count design for elements of lists/arrays protected by RCU.
+
+Please note that the percpu-ref feature is likely your first
+stop if you need to combine reference counts and RCU. Please see
+include/linux/percpu-refcount.h for more information. However, in
+those unusual cases where percpu-ref would consume too much memory,
+please read on.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
Reference counting on elements of lists which are protected by traditional
reader/writer spinlocks or semaphores are straightforward:
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index 49b8551..e48c57f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ RCU pointer/list update:
list_add_tail_rcu
list_del_rcu
list_replace_rcu
- hlist_add_after_rcu
+ hlist_add_behind_rcu
hlist_add_before_rcu
hlist_add_head_rcu
hlist_del_rcu