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45 to establish the task policy for a child task exec()'d from an 45 to establish the task policy for a child task exec()'d from an
46 executable image that has no awareness of memory policy. See the 46 executable image that has no awareness of memory policy. See the
47 MEMORY POLICY APIS section, below, for an overview of the system call 47 MEMORY POLICY APIS section, below, for an overview of the system call
48 that a task may use to set/change it's task/process policy. 48 that a task may use to set/change its task/process policy.
49 49
50 In a multi-threaded task, task policies apply only to the thread 50 In a multi-threaded task, task policies apply only to the thread
51 [Linux kernel task] that installs the policy and any threads 51 [Linux kernel task] that installs the policy and any threads
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ decrement this reference count, respectively. mpol_put() will only free
301the structure back to the mempolicy kmem cache when the reference count 301the structure back to the mempolicy kmem cache when the reference count
302goes to zero. 302goes to zero.
303 303
304When a new memory policy is allocated, it's reference count is initialized 304When a new memory policy is allocated, its reference count is initialized
305to '1', representing the reference held by the task that is installing the 305to '1', representing the reference held by the task that is installing the
306new policy. When a pointer to a memory policy structure is stored in another 306new policy. When a pointer to a memory policy structure is stored in another
307structure, another reference is added, as the task's reference will be dropped 307structure, another reference is added, as the task's reference will be dropped