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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2022-02-03 17:36:16 -0800 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2022-02-03 17:36:16 -0800 |
| commit | c59400a68c53374179cdc5f99fa77afbd092dcf8 (patch) | |
| tree | c5e17286fa5b7867a5290a975cca3bc5759d510e /Documentation/kernel-hacking | |
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
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Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst index e6cd40663ea5..4cbd50edf277 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Pete Zaitcev gives the following summary: - If you are in a process context (any syscall) and want to lock other process out, use a mutex. You can take a mutex and sleep - (``copy_from_user*(`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``). + (``copy_from_user()`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``). - Otherwise (== data can be touched in an interrupt), use spin_lock_irqsave() and |