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diff --git a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst index 54d9c17bb66b..6a8f8beb9ec4 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Wound/Wait Deadlock-Proof Mutex Design ====================================== -Please read mutex-design.txt first, as it applies to wait/wound mutexes too. +Please read mutex-design.rst first, as it applies to wait/wound mutexes too. Motivation for WW-Mutexes ------------------------- @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Concepts Compared to normal mutexes two additional concepts/objects show up in the lock interface for w/w mutexes: -Acquire context: To ensure eventual forward progress it is important the a task +Acquire context: To ensure eventual forward progress it is important that a task trying to acquire locks doesn't grab a new reservation id, but keeps the one it acquired when starting the lock acquisition. This ticket is stored in the acquire context. Furthermore the acquire context keeps track of debugging state |