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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
	darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu,
	Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/3] rcu: Fix occurrence of "the the" in checklist.txt
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:33:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130925153321.GA6269@leaf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130925135527.GS9093@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 06:55:27AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 08:47:39PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 06:17:23PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > ---
> > 
> > See comment below.
> > 
> > >  Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
> > > index 7703ec7..ad6cba4 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
> > > +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
> > > @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
> > >  	the corresponding readers must disable preemption, possibly
> > >  	by calling rcu_read_lock_sched() and rcu_read_unlock_sched().
> > >  	If the updater uses synchronize_srcu() or call_srcu(),
> > > -	the the corresponding readers must use srcu_read_lock() and
> > > +	the corresponding readers must use srcu_read_lock() and
> > 
> > I think this may have actually been a typo for "then", as in "If the
> > updater uses ..., then the corresponding readers must use ...".
> 
> Good point -- that would make the sentence construction parallel with
> the surrounding sentences.  Updated patch below.
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> rcu: Fix occurrence of "the the" in checklist.txt
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> [ paulmck: Add "then" as suggested by Josh Triplett. ]

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
> index 7703ec7..9126619 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
> @@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
>  	updater uses call_rcu_sched() or synchronize_sched(), then
>  	the corresponding readers must disable preemption, possibly
>  	by calling rcu_read_lock_sched() and rcu_read_unlock_sched().
> -	If the updater uses synchronize_srcu() or call_srcu(),
> -	the the corresponding readers must use srcu_read_lock() and
> +	If the updater uses synchronize_srcu() or call_srcu(), then
> +	the corresponding readers must use srcu_read_lock() and
>  	srcu_read_unlock(), and with the same srcu_struct.  The rules for
>  	the expedited primitives are the same as for their non-expedited
>  	counterparts.  Mixing things up will result in confusion and
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-25 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-25  1:16 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] Documentation updates for 3.13 Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25  1:17 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/3] rcu: Update stall-warning documentation Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25  1:17   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] kthread: Add pointer to vmstat-avoidance patch Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25  1:17   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/3] rcu: Fix occurrence of "the the" in checklist.txt Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25  3:47     ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-25 13:55       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 15:33         ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2013-09-25 17:13           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-25 18:22           ` Michael Opdenacker
2013-09-25  3:48 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] Documentation updates for 3.13 Josh Triplett
2013-09-25 13:55   ` Paul E. McKenney

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