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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>2020-07-03 14:36:48 -0700
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-07-13 09:48:31 -0600
commit7d64394b5187e225b4e578d281a36e07495738ce (patch)
tree8ce555878e2e0bd76c87eafe21b8202680e92f29 /Documentation/locking
parentbfbc7e5c92fec5252ad45ac26f1699a6234f8c0e (diff)
Documentation: locking: mutex-design: fix duplicated word
Change the phrase "at at least" to "to at least" to be more readable. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200703213649.30948-2-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ and implemented in kernel/locking/mutex.c. These locks use an atomic variable
(->owner) to keep track of the lock state during its lifetime. Field owner
actually contains `struct task_struct *` to the current lock owner and it is
therefore NULL if not currently owned. Since task_struct pointers are aligned
-at at least L1_CACHE_BYTES, low bits (3) are used to store extra state (e.g.,
+to at least L1_CACHE_BYTES, low bits (3) are used to store extra state (e.g.,
if waiter list is non-empty). In its most basic form it also includes a
wait-queue and a spinlock that serializes access to it. Furthermore,
CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER=y systems use a spinner MCS lock (->osq), described