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| author | Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org> | 2022-02-23 16:14:15 +0300 |
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| committer | Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org> | 2022-02-23 16:14:15 +0300 |
| commit | 24e3bb7429bde31e9a28a46ca2fd6deaab257c30 (patch) | |
| tree | e071e61748b5322e35033dbe0df8df5b027803d8 /Documentation/kernel-hacking | |
| parent | 8302532f47bb6c3aa1ed2043d30187ca307f176a (diff) | |
| parent | 509853f9e1e7b1490dc79f735a5dbafc9298f40d (diff) | |
| download | linux-24e3bb7429bde31e9a28a46ca2fd6deaab257c30.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'irq-api-2022-02-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into i2c/for-mergewindow
Provide a tag for maintainers to pull the generic_handle_irq_safe() API.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 2 |
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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 |