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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-19 18:07:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-19 18:07:25 -0700
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Pull Documentation updates from Jon Corbet: "A bit busier this time around. The most interesting thing (IMO) this time around is some beginning infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using restructured text. Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be able to eliminate the DocBook dependency and have a much better integrated set of kernel docs. Someday. Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees, the movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of improvements to the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection of corrections, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits) doc: self-protection: provide initial details serial: doc: Use port->state instead of info serial: doc: Always refer to tty_port->mutex Documentation: vm: Spelling s/paltform/platform/g Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behavior docproc: print a comment about autogeneration for rst output docproc: add support for reStructuredText format via --rst option docproc: abstract terminating lines at first space docproc: abstract docproc directive detection docproc: reduce unnecessary indentation docproc: add variables for subcommand and filename kernel-doc: use rst C domain directives and references for types kernel-doc: produce RestructuredText output kernel-doc: rewrite usage description, remove duplicated comments Doc: correct the location of sysrq.c Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes samples: v4l: from Documentation to samples directory samples: connector: from Documentation to samples directory Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes ...
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@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ several reasons why such integration is hard/impossible:
- the unpredictable [O(N)] overhead of cascading leads to delays which
necessitate a more complex handling of high resolution timers, which
- in turn decreases robustness. Such a design still led to rather large
+ in turn decreases robustness. Such a design still leads to rather large
timing inaccuracies. Cascading is a fundamental property of the timer
- wheel concept, it cannot be 'designed out' without unevitably
+ wheel concept, it cannot be 'designed out' without inevitably
degrading other portions of the timers.c code in an unacceptable way.
- the implementation of the current posix-timer subsystem on top of
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ was not really a win, due to the different data structures. Also, the
hrtimer functions now have clearer behavior and clearer names - such as
hrtimer_try_to_cancel() and hrtimer_cancel() [which are roughly
equivalent to del_timer() and del_timer_sync()] - so there's no direct
-1:1 mapping between them on the algorithmical level, and thus no real
+1:1 mapping between them on the algorithmic level, and thus no real
potential for code sharing either.
Basic data types: every time value, absolute or relative, is in a