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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-08-06 14:15:47 +0300
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To sync headers, for instance, in this case tools/perf was ahead of upstream till Linus merged tip/perf/core to get the PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE changes: Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ However, the Wound-Wait algorithm is typically stated to generate fewer backoffs
compared to Wait-Die, but is, on the other hand, associated with more work than
Wait-Die when recovering from a backoff. Wound-Wait is also a preemptive
algorithm in that transactions are wounded by other transactions, and that
-requires a reliable way to pick up up the wounded condition and preempt the
+requires a reliable way to pick up the wounded condition and preempt the
running transaction. Note that this is not the same as process preemption. A
Wound-Wait transaction is considered preempted when it dies (returning
-EDEADLK) following a wound.