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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/locking/percpu-rw-semaphore.rst | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/locking/percpu-rw-semaphore.rst b/Documentation/locking/percpu-rw-semaphore.rst index 247de6410855..a105bf2dd812 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/percpu-rw-semaphore.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/percpu-rw-semaphore.rst @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ writing is very expensive, it calls synchronize_rcu() that can take hundreds of milliseconds. The lock is declared with "struct percpu_rw_semaphore" type. -The lock is initialized percpu_init_rwsem, it returns 0 on success and --ENOMEM on allocation failure. +The lock is initialized with percpu_init_rwsem, it returns 0 on success +and -ENOMEM on allocation failure. The lock must be freed with percpu_free_rwsem to avoid memory leak. The lock is locked for read with percpu_down_read, percpu_up_read and |