From a2ffd2751683f4275d4d1aa5ce37e5a6a1ae21df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:49:15 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'F'-'G' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'F'-'G'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/lockdep-design.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/lockdep-design.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt index 55a7e4f..7f2bb8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ enum bdev_bd_mutex_lock_class In this case the locking is done on a bdev object that is known to be a partition. -The validator treats a lock that is taken in such a nested fasion as a +The validator treats a lock that is taken in such a nested fashion as a separate (sub)class for the purposes of validation. Note: When changing code to use the _nested() primitives, be careful and -- cgit v1.1 From 2fe0ae78c6975d6fa2fc0c84f2b8944543054105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:50:39 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/lockdep-design.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/lockdep-design.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt index 7f2bb8e..2a76a4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ cases there is an inherent "natural" ordering between the two objects (defined by the properties of the hierarchy), and the kernel grabs the locks in this fixed order on each of the objects. -An example of such an object hieararchy that results in "nested locking" +An example of such an object hierarchy that results in "nested locking" is that of a "whole disk" block-dev object and a "partition" block-dev object; the partition is "part of" the whole device and as long as one always takes the whole disk lock as a higher lock than the partition @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ The validator treats a lock that is taken in such a nested fashion as a separate (sub)class for the purposes of validation. Note: When changing code to use the _nested() primitives, be careful and -check really thoroughly that the hiearchy is correctly mapped; otherwise +check really thoroughly that the hierarchy is correctly mapped; otherwise you can get false positives or false negatives. Proof of 100% correctness: -- cgit v1.1 From 992caacf1141b31e94540eb31e0540e3da3a5e25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:52:05 +0200 Subject: Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/lockdep-design.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/lockdep-design.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt index 2a76a4a..dab123d 100644 --- a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ Proof of 100% correctness: The validator achieves perfect, mathematical 'closure' (proof of locking correctness) in the sense that for every simple, standalone single-task -locking sequence that occured at least once during the lifetime of the +locking sequence that occurred at least once during the lifetime of the kernel, the validator proves it with a 100% certainty that no combination and timing of these locking sequences can cause any class of lock related deadlock. [*] -- cgit v1.1