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diff --git a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst index 1846c199da23..54d9c17bb66b 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ However, the Wound-Wait algorithm is typically stated to generate fewer backoffs compared to Wait-Die, but is, on the other hand, associated with more work than Wait-Die when recovering from a backoff. Wound-Wait is also a preemptive algorithm in that transactions are wounded by other transactions, and that -requires a reliable way to pick up up the wounded condition and preempt the +requires a reliable way to pick up the wounded condition and preempt the running transaction. Note that this is not the same as process preemption. A Wound-Wait transaction is considered preempted when it dies (returning -EDEADLK) following a wound. |