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-rw-r--r--Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/locking/mutex-design.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst2
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst
index 8012a74555e7..dfaf9fc883f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst
+++ b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst
@@ -166,4 +166,4 @@ checked for such errors. The "rmmod" command forces a "SUCCESS",
two are self-explanatory, while the last indicates that while there
were no locking failures, CPU-hotplug problems were detected.
-Also see: Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
+Also see: Documentation/RCU/torture.rst
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
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.