[PATCH] local_t update documentation

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local_t update documentation

Quoting Grant Grundler <[email protected]>
> o Wording in local_ops.txt: "on the  
>   "... it will then appear to be written out of order wrt
>    other memory writes on the owner CPU."
> 
>   I'd like to suggest "by the owner CPU".
> 

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
CC: Grant Grundler <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/local_ops.txt |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/Documentation/local_ops.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/Documentation/local_ops.txt	2007-08-28 07:45:39.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/Documentation/local_ops.txt	2007-08-28 07:45:47.000000000 -0400
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ CPU which owns the data. Therefore, care
 CPU writes to the local_t data. This is done by using per cpu data and making
 sure that we modify it from within a preemption safe context. It is however
 permitted to read local_t data from any CPU : it will then appear to be written
-out of order wrt other memory writes on the owner CPU.
+out of order wrt other memory writes by the owner CPU.
 
 
 * Implementation for a given architecture

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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