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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst index e6cd40663ea5..4cbd50edf277 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Pete Zaitcev gives the following summary: - If you are in a process context (any syscall) and want to lock other process out, use a mutex. You can take a mutex and sleep - (``copy_from_user*(`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``). + (``copy_from_user()`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``). - Otherwise (== data can be touched in an interrupt), use spin_lock_irqsave() and |