From: Mathieu Desnoyers Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:29:29 +0000 (-0700) Subject: local_t: update documentation X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~645 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e1ccb9619e8e9ae86dfc5a4645ccf3bf5a2eb3f;p=linux-2.6 local_t: update documentation Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Grant Grundler Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt index a134a563db..4269a1105b 100644 --- a/Documentation/local_ops.txt +++ b/Documentation/local_ops.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ CPU which owns the data. Therefore, care must taken to make sure that only one CPU writes to the local_t data. This is done by using per cpu data and making sure that we modify it from within a preemption safe context. It is however permitted to read local_t data from any CPU : it will then appear to be written -out of order wrt other memory writes on the owner CPU. +out of order wrt other memory writes by the owner CPU. * Implementation for a given architecture