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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt9
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
index 2f0fcb2112d..f29bcbc463e 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 141d531aa14..613033ff2b9 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: