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@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ work looked at debugging uses of RCU [Seyster:2011:RFA:2075416.2075425].
In 2012, Josh Triplett received his Ph.D. with his dissertation
covering RCU-protected resizable hash tables and the relationship
between memory barriers and read-side traversal order: If the updater
-is making changes in the opposite direction from the read-side traveral
+is making changes in the opposite direction from the read-side traversal
order, the updater need only execute a memory-barrier instruction,
but if in the same direction, the updater needs to wait for a grace
period between the individual updates [JoshTriplettPhD]. Also in 2012,
@@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ Oregon Health and Sciences University"
[Viewed September 5, 2005]"
,annotation={
First posting showing how RCU can be safely adapted for
- preemptable RCU read side critical sections.
+ preemptible RCU read side critical sections.
}
}
@@ -1888,7 +1888,7 @@ Revised:
\url{https://lore.kernel.org/r/20070910183004.GA3299@linux.vnet.ibm.com}
[Viewed October 25, 2007]"
,annotation={
- Final patch for preemptable RCU to -rt. (Later patches were
+ Final patch for preemptible RCU to -rt. (Later patches were
to mainline, eventually incorporated.)
}
}
@@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ lot of {Linux} into your technology!!!"
\url{https://lore.kernel.org/r/20090724001429.GA17374@linux.vnet.ibm.com}
[Viewed August 15, 2009]"
,annotation={
- First posting of simple and fast preemptable RCU.
+ First posting of simple and fast preemptible RCU.
}
}
@@ -2639,7 +2639,7 @@ lot of {Linux} into your technology!!!"
RCU-protected hash tables, barriers vs. read-side traversal order.
.
If the updater is making changes in the opposite direction from
- the read-side traveral order, the updater need only execute a
+ the read-side traversal order, the updater need only execute a
memory-barrier instruction, but if in the same direction, the
updater needs to wait for a grace period between the individual
updates.