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[PATCH] typo fixes for rt-mutex-design.txt
Address some simple typos in rt-mutex-design.txt It also changes the indentation of the cmpxchg example (the cmpxchg example was indented by spaces, while all other code snippets were indented by tabs). Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Altenberg <tb10alj@tglx.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@ -333,11 +333,11 @@ cmpxchg is basically the following function performed atomically:
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unsigned long _cmpxchg(unsigned long *A, unsigned long *B, unsigned long *C)
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{
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unsigned long T = *A;
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if (*A == *B) {
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*A = *C;
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}
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return T;
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unsigned long T = *A;
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if (*A == *B) {
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*A = *C;
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}
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return T;
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}
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#define cmpxchg(a,b,c) _cmpxchg(&a,&b,&c)
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@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ contention).
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try_to_take_rt_mutex is used every time the task tries to grab a mutex in the
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slow path. The first thing that is done here is an atomic setting of
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the "Has Waiters" flag of the mutex's owner field. Yes, this could really
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be false, because if the the mutex has no owner, there are no waiters and
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be false, because if the mutex has no owner, there are no waiters and
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the current task also won't have any waiters. But we don't have the lock
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yet, so we assume we are going to be a waiter. The reason for this is to
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play nice for those architectures that do have CMPXCHG. By setting this flag
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@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ do have CMPXCHG, that check is done in the fast path, but it is still needed
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in the slow path too. If a waiter of a mutex woke up because of a signal
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or timeout between the time the owner failed the fast path CMPXCHG check and
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the grabbing of the wait_lock, the mutex may not have any waiters, thus the
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owner still needs to make this check. If there are no waiters than the mutex
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owner still needs to make this check. If there are no waiters then the mutex
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owner field is set to NULL, the wait_lock is released and nothing more is
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needed.
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