From 297f739938908a4262603314576e32ee7375296c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 17:31:07 -0700 Subject: documentation: Fix spelling of "operators" Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/RCU') diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt index 1e6c0da994f5..c0bf2441a2ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ o You must use one of the rcu_dereference() family of primitives o Avoid cancellation when using the "+" and "-" infix arithmetic operators. For example, for a given variable "x", avoid "(x-x)". There are similar arithmetic pitfalls from other - arithmetic operatiors, such as "(x*0)", "(x/(x+1))" or "(x%1)". + arithmetic operators, such as "(x*0)", "(x/(x+1))" or "(x%1)". The compiler is within its rights to substitute zero for all of these expressions, so that subsequent accesses no longer depend on the rcu_dereference(), again possibly resulting in bugs due -- cgit v1.2.3