Merge tag 'docs-5.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

[linux-2.6-microblaze.git] / Documentation / RCU / rcu_dereference.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
index f3e587a..0b418a5 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Follow these rules to keep your RCU code working properly:
        -       Set bits and clear bits down in the must-be-zero low-order
                bits of that pointer.  This clearly means that the pointer
                must have alignment constraints, for example, this does
-               -not- work in general for char* pointers.
+               *not* work in general for char* pointers.
 
        -       XOR bits to translate pointers, as is done in some
                classic buddy-allocator algorithms.
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Follow these rules to keep your RCU code working properly:
                Please see the "CONTROL DEPENDENCIES" section of
                Documentation/memory-barriers.txt for more details.
 
-       -       The pointers are not equal -and- the compiler does
+       -       The pointers are not equal *and* the compiler does
                not have enough information to deduce the value of the
                pointer.  Note that the volatile cast in rcu_dereference()
                will normally prevent the compiler from knowing too much.
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ in turn destroying the ordering between this load and the loads of the
 return values.  This can result in "p->b" returning pre-initialization
 garbage values.
 
-In short, rcu_dereference() is -not- optional when you are going to
+In short, rcu_dereference() is *not* optional when you are going to
 dereference the resulting pointer.