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authorEric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>2016-04-25 07:36:54 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-04-28 10:40:57 +0200
commit1d4093d3b3a70b947822cca76d6e4132767ce089 (patch)
tree70847495cff630218e7141367d7cc36b2d754968 /Documentation/locking
parentc003ed928962a55eb446e78c544b1d7c4f6cb88a (diff)
downloadlinux-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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt4
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:
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