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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2011-04-18 18:07:43 +0100
committerMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2011-04-18 18:07:43 +0100
commitd5381e42f64ca19f05c5799ffae5708acb6ed411 (patch)
tree8b5e757a9847047102c475c6c583afc191d02e5b /Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt
parentf030d60b30855e18ac5bf080fa9e576147623d18 (diff)
parentb3c27b51db9112d03864fdef44fa611dd69c1425 (diff)
ASoC: Merge branch 'for-2.6.39' into for-2.6.40
Fix trivial conflict caused by silly spelling fix patch. Conflicts: sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt
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@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Path walking overview
A name string specifies a start (root directory, cwd, fd-relative) and a
sequence of elements (directory entry names), which together refer to a path in
the namespace. A path is represented as a (dentry, vfsmount) tuple. The name
-elements are sub-strings, seperated by '/'.
+elements are sub-strings, separated by '/'.
Name lookups will want to find a particular path that a name string refers to
(usually the final element, or parent of final element). This is done by taking
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ vfstest 24185492 4945 708725(2.9%) 1076136(4.4%) 0 2651
What this shows is that failed rcu-walk lookups, ie. ones that are restarted
entirely with ref-walk, are quite rare. Even the "vfstest" case which
-specifically has concurrent renames/mkdir/rmdir/ creat/unlink/etc to excercise
+specifically has concurrent renames/mkdir/rmdir/ creat/unlink/etc to exercise
such races is not showing a huge amount of restarts.
Dropping from rcu-walk to ref-walk mean that we have encountered a dentry where