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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-24 08:32:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-24 08:32:11 -0700
commit6c5daf012c9155aafd2c7973e4278766c30dfad0 (patch)
tree33959d7b36d03e1610615641a2940cb2de5e8603 /Documentation/vm
parent6d39b27f0ac7e805ae3bd9efa51d7da04bec0360 (diff)
parentc08d3b0e33edce28e9cfa7b64f7fe5bdeeb29248 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: truncate: use new helpers truncate: new helpers fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem exofs: remove BKL from super operations fs/romfs: correct error-handling code vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges libfs: return error code on failed attr set seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails. vfs: optimize touch_time() too vfs: optimization for touch_atime() vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode() libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/locking b/Documentation/vm/locking
index f366fa95617..25fadb44876 100644
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@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Note: PTL can also be used to guarantee that no new clones using the
mm start up ... this is a loose form of stability on mm_users. For
example, it is used in copy_mm to protect against a racing tlb_gather_mmu
single address space optimization, so that the zap_page_range (from
-vmtruncate) does not lose sending ipi's to cloned threads that might
+truncate) does not lose sending ipi's to cloned threads that might
be spawned underneath it and go to user mode to drag in pte's into tlbs.
swap_lock