local_t update documentation
PATCH 1/1 local_t update documentation
local_t update documentation
Quoting Grant Grundler <[email protected]>
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o Wording in local_ops.txt: "on the
"... it will then appear to be written out of order wrt
other memory writes on the owner CPU."I'd like to suggest "by the owner CPU".
Signed-off-by Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
CC Grant Grundler <[email protected]>
--- Documentation/local_ops.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Documentation/local_ops.txt +1 -1
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ CPU which owns the data. Therefore, care 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
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Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68