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docs: fix typo in Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst

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Change copy_from_user*( to copy_from_user() .

Signed-off-by: Takahiro Itazuri <itazur@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124081447.34066-1-itazur@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Takahiro Itazuri 2022-01-24 17:14:47 +09:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ Pete Zaitcev gives the following summary:
- If you are in a process context (any syscall) and want to lock other
process out, use a mutex. You can take a mutex and sleep
(``copy_from_user*(`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``).
(``copy_from_user()`` or ``kmalloc(x,GFP_KERNEL)``).
- Otherwise (== data can be touched in an interrupt), use
spin_lock_irqsave() and