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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>2023-01-30 02:10:49 +0300
committerJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>2023-04-05 16:47:18 +0300
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Documentation: RCU: Correct spelling
Correct spelling problems for Documentation/RCU/ as reported by codespell. Note: in RTFP.txt, there are other misspellings that are left as is since they were used that way in email Subject: lines or in LWN.net articles. [preemptable, Preemptable, synchonisation] Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/Design/Expedited-Grace-Periods/Expedited-Grace-Periods.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Expedited-Grace-Periods/Expedited-Grace-Periods.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Expedited-Grace-Periods/Expedited-Grace-Periods.rst
index c9c957c85bac..93d899d53258 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Expedited-Grace-Periods/Expedited-Grace-Periods.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Expedited-Grace-Periods/Expedited-Grace-Periods.rst
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ the following access functions:
Again, only one request in a given batch need actually carry out a
grace-period operation, which means there must be an efficient way to
-identify which of many concurrent reqeusts will initiate the grace
+identify which of many concurrent requests will initiate the grace
period, and that there be an efficient way for the remaining requests to
wait for that grace period to complete. However, that is the topic of
the next section.
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Use of Workqueues
In earlier implementations, the task requesting the expedited grace
period also drove it to completion. This straightforward approach had
the disadvantage of needing to account for POSIX signals sent to user
-tasks, so more recent implemementations use the Linux kernel's
+tasks, so more recent implementations use the Linux kernel's
workqueues (see Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst).
The requesting task still does counter snapshotting and funnel-lock
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ corresponding disadvantage that workqueues cannot be used until they are
initialized, which does not happen until some time after the scheduler
spawns the first task. Given that there are parts of the kernel that
really do want to execute grace periods during this mid-boot “dead
-zone”, expedited grace periods must do something else during thie time.
+zone”, expedited grace periods must do something else during this time.
What they do is to fall back to the old practice of requiring that the
requesting task drive the expedited grace period, as was the case before
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
index 7fdf151a8680..5750f125361b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ an ``atomic_add_return()`` of zero) to detect idle CPUs.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
The approach must be extended to handle one final case, that of waking a
-task blocked in ``synchronize_rcu()``. This task might be affinitied to
+task blocked in ``synchronize_rcu()``. This task might be affined to
a CPU that is not yet aware that the grace period has ended, and thus
might not yet be subject to the grace period's memory ordering.
Therefore, there is an ``smp_mb()`` after the return from