Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth: | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more | formal, and "while" is the common word. | | [...] | | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never | uses? dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation. Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while". Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ FS-Cache provides some utilities that a cache backend may make use of:
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void fscache_get_retrieval(struct fscache_retrieval *op);
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void fscache_put_retrieval(struct fscache_retrieval *op);
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These two functions are used to retain a retrieval record whilst doing
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These two functions are used to retain a retrieval record while doing
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asynchronous data retrieval and block allocation.
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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ filesystems are very specific in nature.
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CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used
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to communication with the daemon. Only one thing may have this open at once,
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and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence. The daemon
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and while it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence. The daemon
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opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache.
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CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache.
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@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems. The
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kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores
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mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them.
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Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the
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Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache while the
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cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain.
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Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the
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@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ MISCELLANEOUS OBJECT REGISTRATION
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An optional step is to request an object of miscellaneous type be created in
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the cache. This is almost identical to index cookie acquisition. The only
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difference is that the type in the object definition should be something other
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than index type. Whilst the parent object could be an index, it's more likely
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than index type. While the parent object could be an index, it's more likely
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it would be some other type of object such as a data file.
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xattr->cache =
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@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Operations are used through the following procedure:
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(3) If the submitting thread wants to do the work itself, and has marked the
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operation with FSCACHE_OP_MYTHREAD, then it should monitor
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FSCACHE_OP_WAITING as described above and check the state of the object if
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necessary (the object might have died whilst the thread was waiting).
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necessary (the object might have died while the thread was waiting).
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When it has finished doing its processing, it should call
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fscache_op_complete() and fscache_put_operation() on it.
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