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authorMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>2016-07-01 12:46:01 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-07-01 10:00:10 +0200
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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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt
index 1a5a121..85d0549 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.
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