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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-05-14 17:31:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-07-15 14:43:10 -0700 |
| commit | 297f739938908a4262603314576e32ee7375296c (patch) | |
| tree | 766d05e1dfeabc6ffca33e9ee880e5509828f258 /Documentation/RCU | |
| parent | 21b05de4c8fac08fff08cf84ef1d4fe5786f9608 (diff) | |
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documentation: Fix spelling of "operators"
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt index 1e6c0da994f5..c0bf2441a2ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ o You must use one of the rcu_dereference() family of primitives o Avoid cancellation when using the "+" and "-" infix arithmetic operators. For example, for a given variable "x", avoid "(x-x)". There are similar arithmetic pitfalls from other - arithmetic operatiors, such as "(x*0)", "(x/(x+1))" or "(x%1)". + arithmetic operators, such as "(x*0)", "(x/(x+1))" or "(x%1)". The compiler is within its rights to substitute zero for all of these expressions, so that subsequent accesses no longer depend on the rcu_dereference(), again possibly resulting in bugs due |