From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761328AbXH1LvS (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:51:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755514AbXH1LvF (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:51:05 -0400 Received: from tomts43.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.110]:37790 "EHLO tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756508AbXH1LvD (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:51:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:51:01 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] local_t update documentation Message-ID: <20070828115101.GC12241@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 07:50:29 up 29 days, 12:09, 5 users, load average: 0.32, 0.98, 1.32 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org local_t update documentation Quoting Grant Grundler > 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 CC: Grant Grundler --- Documentation/local_ops.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-lttng/Documentation/local_ops.txt =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/Documentation/local_ops.txt 2007-08-28 07:45:39.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6-lttng/Documentation/local_ops.txt 2007-08-28 07:45:47.000000000 -0400 @@ -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 -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68