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diff --git a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt index 7f2bb8e342f..2a76a4af598 100644 --- a/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/lockdep-design.txt @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ cases there is an inherent "natural" ordering between the two objects (defined by the properties of the hierarchy), and the kernel grabs the locks in this fixed order on each of the objects. -An example of such an object hieararchy that results in "nested locking" +An example of such an object hierarchy that results in "nested locking" is that of a "whole disk" block-dev object and a "partition" block-dev object; the partition is "part of" the whole device and as long as one always takes the whole disk lock as a higher lock than the partition @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ The validator treats a lock that is taken in such a nested fashion as a separate (sub)class for the purposes of validation. Note: When changing code to use the _nested() primitives, be careful and -check really thoroughly that the hiearchy is correctly mapped; otherwise +check really thoroughly that the hierarchy is correctly mapped; otherwise you can get false positives or false negatives. Proof of 100% correctness: |