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diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt index 4269a1105b3..f4f8b1c6c8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/local_ops.txt +++ b/Documentation/local_ops.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ It can be done by slightly modifying the standard atomic operations : only their UP variant must be kept. It typically means removing LOCK prefix (on i386 and x86_64) and any SMP sychronization barrier. If the architecture does not have a different behavior between SMP and UP, including asm-generic/local.h -in your archtecture's local.h is sufficient. +in your architecture's local.h is sufficient. The local_t type is defined as an opaque signed long by embedding an atomic_long_t inside a structure. This is made so a cast from this type to a |