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| author | Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> | 2016-04-25 07:36:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-04-28 10:40:57 +0200 |
| commit | 1d4093d3b3a70b947822cca76d6e4132767ce089 (patch) | |
| tree | 70847495cff630218e7141367d7cc36b2d754968 /Documentation/locking | |
| parent | c003ed928962a55eb446e78c544b1d7c4f6cb88a (diff) | |
| download | linux-1d4093d3b3a70b947822cca76d6e4132767ce089.tar.bz2 | |
locking/Documentation/lockdep: Fix spelling mistakes
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461566229-4717-2-git-send-email-eric@engestrom.ch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt b/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt index 5001280e9d82..9de1c158d44c 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ between any two lock-classes: <hardirq-safe> -> <hardirq-unsafe> <softirq-safe> -> <softirq-unsafe> -The first rule comes from the fact the a hardirq-safe lock could be +The first rule comes from the fact that a hardirq-safe lock could be taken by a hardirq context, interrupting a hardirq-unsafe lock - and thus could result in a lock inversion deadlock. Likewise, a softirq-safe lock could be taken by an softirq context, interrupting a softirq-unsafe @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ calculated, which hash is unique for every lock chain. The hash value, when the chain is validated for the first time, is then put into a hash table, which hash-table can be checked in a lockfree manner. If the locking chain occurs again later on, the hash table tells us that we -dont have to validate the chain again. +don't have to validate the chain again. Troubleshooting: ---------------- |