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| author | Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> | 2007-10-17 08:29:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 17:42:56 +0200 |
| commit | 0e1ccb9619e8e9ae86dfc5a4645ccf3bf5a2eb3f (patch) | |
| tree | e5366b5c950d870f6c07bf627061ff0c08bc623b /Documentation/local_ops.txt | |
| parent | atomic_ops.txt: mention local_t (diff) | |
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local_t: update documentation
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt index a134a563db32..4269a1105b37 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 |