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local_t: update documentation
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Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 17, 2007
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Expand Up @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ CPU which owns the data. Therefore, care must taken to make sure that only one
CPU writes to the local_t data. This is done by using per cpu data and making
sure that we modify it from within a preemption safe context. It is however
permitted to read local_t data from any CPU : it will then appear to be written
out of order wrt other memory writes on the owner CPU.
out of order wrt other memory writes by the owner CPU.


* Implementation for a given architecture
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