[PATCH] docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section
From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Wed Mar 18 2020 - 01:45:24 EST
Add the missing word to make this sentence read properly.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
index a8518ac0d31d..9850c1e52607 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ by a hardware interrupt on another CPU. This is where
interrupts on that cpu, then grab the lock.
:c:func:`spin_unlock_irq()` does the reverse.
-The irq handler does not to use :c:func:`spin_lock_irq()`, because
+The irq handler does not need to use :c:func:`spin_lock_irq()`, because
the softirq cannot run while the irq handler is running: it can use
:c:func:`spin_lock()`, which is slightly faster. The only exception
would be if a different hardware irq handler uses the same lock:
base-commit: fb33c6510d5595144d585aa194d377cf74d31911
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