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| author | Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> | 2016-07-01 05:46:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-07-01 10:00:10 +0200 |
| commit | c76a093dc1415d364020b8b33f1e194ef4d26fd0 (patch) | |
| tree | 7bf0ebac56ddfef7cfa0cbc224acaadbbc909b66 /Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | |
| parent | x86/amd_nb: Fix boot crash on non-AMD systems (diff) | |
| download | linux-c76a093dc1415d364020b8b33f1e194ef4d26fd0.tar.xz linux-c76a093dc1415d364020b8b33f1e194ef4d26fd0.zip | |
x86/Documentation: Fix various typos in Documentation/x86/ files
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160701034601.30308-1-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt index 1a5a12184a35..85d0549ad846 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ is how we expect the compiler, application and kernel to work together. MPX-instrumented. 3) The kernel detects that the CPU has MPX, allows the new prctl() to succeed, and notes the location of the bounds directory. Userspace is - expected to keep the bounds directory at that locationWe note it + expected to keep the bounds directory at that location. We note it instead of reading it each time because the 'xsave' operation needed to access the bounds directory register is an expensive operation. 4) If the application needs to spill bounds out of the 4 registers, it @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ If a #BR is generated due to a bounds violation caused by MPX. We need to decode MPX instructions to get violation address and set this address into extended struct siginfo. -The _sigfault feild of struct siginfo is extended as follow: +The _sigfault field of struct siginfo is extended as follow: 87 /* SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS */ 88 struct { @@ -240,5 +240,5 @@ them at the same bounds table. This is allowed architecturally. See more information "Intel(R) Architecture Instruction Set Extensions Programming Reference" (9.3.4). -However, if users did this, the kernel might be fooled in to unmaping an +However, if users did this, the kernel might be fooled in to unmapping an in-use bounds table since it does not recognize sharing. |