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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mutex-design.txt10
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
index 09e884e5b9f5..19f2a5a5a5b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -1958,7 +1958,7 @@ machines due to caching.
<chapter id="apiref-mutex">
<title>Mutex API reference</title>
!Iinclude/linux/mutex.h
-!Ekernel/mutex.c
+!Ekernel/locking/mutex.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="apiref-futex">
diff --git a/Documentation/mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/mutex-design.txt
index 38c10fd7f411..1dfe62c3641d 100644
--- a/Documentation/mutex-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/mutex-design.txt
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ using mutexes at the moment, please let me know if you find any. ]
Implementation of mutexes
-------------------------
-'struct mutex' is the new mutex type, defined in include/linux/mutex.h
-and implemented in kernel/mutex.c. It is a counter-based mutex with a
-spinlock and a wait-list. The counter has 3 states: 1 for "unlocked",
-0 for "locked" and negative numbers (usually -1) for "locked, potential
-waiters queued".
+'struct mutex' is the new mutex type, defined in include/linux/mutex.h and
+implemented in kernel/locking/mutex.c. It is a counter-based mutex with a
+spinlock and a wait-list. The counter has 3 states: 1 for "unlocked", 0 for
+"locked" and negative numbers (usually -1) for "locked, potential waiters
+queued".
the APIs of 'struct mutex' have been streamlined: