Documentation/RCU: Fix nested inline markup
To avoid the ``foo`` markup inside the `bar`__ hyperlink marker,
use the "replace" directive [1].
This should restore the intended appearance of the link.
Tested with sphinx versions 1.7.9 and 2.4.4.
[1]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#replace
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst
index 38a3947..45278e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst
@@ -362,9 +362,8 @@
12 }
The rcu_dereference() uses volatile casts and (for DEC Alpha) memory
-barriers in the Linux kernel. Should a `high-quality implementation of
-C11 ``memory_order_consume``
-[PDF] <http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/consume.2015.07.13a.pdf>`__
+barriers in the Linux kernel. Should a |high-quality implementation of
+C11 memory_order_consume [PDF]|_
ever appear, then rcu_dereference() could be implemented as a
``memory_order_consume`` load. Regardless of the exact implementation, a
pointer fetched by rcu_dereference() may not be used outside of the
@@ -374,6 +373,9 @@
mechanism, most commonly locking or `reference
counting <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt>`__.
+.. |high-quality implementation of C11 memory_order_consume [PDF]| replace:: high-quality implementation of C11 ``memory_order_consume`` [PDF]
+.. _high-quality implementation of C11 memory_order_consume [PDF]: http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/consume.2015.07.13a.pdf
+
In short, updaters use rcu_assign_pointer() and readers use
rcu_dereference(), and these two RCU API elements work together to
ensure that readers have a consistent view of newly added data elements.
