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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst index 05ea387bc9fb..6fdf0b02df43 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ For our purposes all operations fall in 6 classes: * decide which of the source and target need to be locked. The source needs to be locked if it's a non-directory, target - if it's a non-directory or about to be removed. - * take the locks that need to be taken (exlusive), in inode pointer order + * take the locks that need to be taken (exclusive), in inode pointer order if need to take both (that can happen only when both source and target are non-directories - the source because it wouldn't need to be locked otherwise and the target because mixing directory and non-directory is @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ among the children, in some order. But that is also impossible, since neither of the children is a descendent of another. That concludes the proof, since the set of operations with the -properties requiered for a minimal deadlock can not exist. +properties required for a minimal deadlock can not exist. Note that the check for having a common ancestor in cross-directory rename is crucial - without it a deadlock would be possible. Indeed, |