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| author | Remington Brasga <rbrasga@uci.edu> | 2024-04-29 22:55:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2024-05-02 10:02:29 -0600 |
| commit | da51bbcdbace8f43adf6066934c3926b656376e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ef923a8a2aba086a10fec6ccc413fa7e860dc44 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | d43ddd5c91802a46354fa4c4381416ef760676e2 (diff) | |
Docs: typos/spelling
Fix spelling and grammar in Docs descriptions
Signed-off-by: Remington Brasga <rbrasga@uci.edu>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429225527.2329-1-rbrasga@uci.edu
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst index 05ea387bc9fb..6fdf0b02df43 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking.rst @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ For our purposes all operations fall in 6 classes: * decide which of the source and target need to be locked. The source needs to be locked if it's a non-directory, target - if it's a non-directory or about to be removed. - * take the locks that need to be taken (exlusive), in inode pointer order + * take the locks that need to be taken (exclusive), in inode pointer order if need to take both (that can happen only when both source and target are non-directories - the source because it wouldn't need to be locked otherwise and the target because mixing directory and non-directory is @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ among the children, in some order. But that is also impossible, since neither of the children is a descendent of another. That concludes the proof, since the set of operations with the -properties requiered for a minimal deadlock can not exist. +properties required for a minimal deadlock can not exist. Note that the check for having a common ancestor in cross-directory rename is crucial - without it a deadlock would be possible. Indeed, diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index 1be76ef117b3..f2b44c2400c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ be misspelled d_alloc_anon(). **mandatory** -[should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open() nonwithstanding, +[should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open() notwithstanding, failure exits in ->atomic_open() instances should *NOT* fput() the file, no matter what. Everything is handled by the caller. @@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ This mechanism would only work for a single device so the block layer couldn't find the owning superblock of any additional devices. In the old mechanism reusing or creating a superblock for a racing mount(2) and -umount(2) relied on the file_system_type as the holder. This was severly +umount(2) relied on the file_system_type as the holder. This was severely underdocumented however: (1) Any concurrent mounter that managed to grab an active reference on an |