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docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section
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Stephen Boyd
<swboyd@chromium.org>
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:41:32 +0000
(10:41 -0700)
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Jonathan Corbet
<corbet@lwn.net>
Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:16:19 +0000
(17:16 -0600)
Add the missing word to make this sentence read properly.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200318174133.160206-2-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
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b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
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Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
+++ b/
Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
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-263,7
+263,7
@@
by a hardware interrupt on another CPU. This is where
interrupts on that cpu, then grab the lock.
:c:func:`spin_unlock_irq()` does the reverse.
-The irq handler does not to use :c:func:`spin_lock_irq()`, because
+The irq handler does not
need
to use :c:func:`spin_lock_irq()`, because
the softirq cannot run while the irq handler is running: it can use
:c:func:`spin_lock()`, which is slightly faster. The only exception
would be if a different hardware irq handler uses the same lock: