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authorLucia Rosculete <luciarosculete@gmail.com>2012-03-03 16:18:47 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-05 17:15:55 -0700
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semaphore: fix improper comment reference to mutex
Replace "mutex" with "semaphore" in down_trylock comment Signed-off-by: Lucia Rosculete <luciarosculete@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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diff --git a/kernel/semaphore.c b/kernel/semaphore.c
index 60636a4e25c3..4567fc020fe3 100644
--- a/kernel/semaphore.c
+++ b/kernel/semaphore.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(down_killable);
* down_trylock - try to acquire the semaphore, without waiting
* @sem: the semaphore to be acquired
*
- * Try to acquire the semaphore atomically. Returns 0 if the mutex has
+ * Try to acquire the semaphore atomically. Returns 0 if the semaphore has
* been acquired successfully or 1 if it it cannot be acquired.
*
* NOTE: This return value is inverted from both spin_trylock and