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authorMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>2008-07-25 22:45:33 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-26 15:00:06 -0400
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Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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58 the policy at the time they were allocated. 58 the policy at the time they were allocated.
59 59
60 VMA Policy: A "VMA" or "Virtual Memory Area" refers to a range of a task's 60 VMA Policy: A "VMA" or "Virtual Memory Area" refers to a range of a task's
61 virtual adddress space. A task may define a specific policy for a range 61 virtual address space. A task may define a specific policy for a range
62 of its virtual address space. See the MEMORY POLICIES APIS section, 62 of its virtual address space. See the MEMORY POLICIES APIS section,
63 below, for an overview of the mbind() system call used to set a VMA 63 below, for an overview of the mbind() system call used to set a VMA
64 policy. 64 policy.
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ follows:
353 353
354 Because of this extra reference counting, and because we must lookup 354 Because of this extra reference counting, and because we must lookup
355 shared policies in a tree structure under spinlock, shared policies are 355 shared policies in a tree structure under spinlock, shared policies are
356 more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is expecially 356 more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is especially
357 true for shared policies on shared memory regions shared by tasks running 357 true for shared policies on shared memory regions shared by tasks running
358 on different NUMA nodes. This extra overhead can be avoided by always 358 on different NUMA nodes. This extra overhead can be avoided by always
359 falling back to task or system default policy for shared memory regions, 359 falling back to task or system default policy for shared memory regions,