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diff --git a/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.rst b/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.rst index 8f3e9a5141f9..78540cd7f54b 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.rst @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ and implemented in kernel/locking/mutex.c. These locks use an atomic variable (->owner) to keep track of the lock state during its lifetime. Field owner actually contains `struct task_struct *` to the current lock owner and it is therefore NULL if not currently owned. Since task_struct pointers are aligned -at at least L1_CACHE_BYTES, low bits (3) are used to store extra state (e.g., +to at least L1_CACHE_BYTES, low bits (3) are used to store extra state (e.g., if waiter list is non-empty). In its most basic form it also includes a wait-queue and a spinlock that serializes access to it. Furthermore, CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER=y systems use a spinner MCS lock (->osq), described |