Commit 6adb7755 authored by Stephen Boyd's avatar Stephen Boyd Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section



Add the missing word to make this sentence read properly.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200318174133.160206-2-swboyd@chromium.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ by a hardware interrupt on another CPU. This is where
interrupts on that cpu, then grab the lock.
:c:func:`spin_unlock_irq()` does the reverse.

The irq handler does not to use :c:func:`spin_lock_irq()`, because
The irq handler does not need to use :c:func:`spin_lock_irq()`, because
the softirq cannot run while the irq handler is running: it can use
:c:func:`spin_lock()`, which is slightly faster. The only exception
would be if a different hardware irq handler uses the same lock: