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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>2007-10-17 10:29:29 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 19:42:56 +0400
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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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diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt
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--- 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