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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ do not matter; as soon as all previous critical sections have finished,
there cannot be any readers who hold references to the data structure,
and these can now be safely reclaimed (e.g., freed or unref'ed).
-Here is a picutre:
+Here is a picture:
thread 1 thread 2 thread 3
------------------- ------------------------ -------------------
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ The core RCU API is small:
and then read from there.
RCU read-side critical sections must use atomic_rcu_read() to
- read data, unless concurrent writes are presented by another
+ read data, unless concurrent writes are prevented by another
synchronization mechanism.
Furthermore, RCU read-side critical sections should traverse the