linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc: fix some typos

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Message-ID: <5234938E.7010809@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:49:18 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
CC:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, rob@...dley.net, ananth@...ibm.com,
	anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix some typos

On 09/13/13 20:49, Xishi Qiu wrote:

> diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> index 0cfb00f..ca278d5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ stack contents as the probed function.  When it is done, the handler
>  calls jprobe_return(), which traps again to restore the original stack
>  contents and processor state and switch to the probed function.
>  
> -By convention, the callee owns its arguments, so gcc may produce code

Are you sure about that?
It looks correct to me (before the patch).

> +By convention, the caller owns its arguments, so gcc may produce code
>  that unexpectedly modifies that portion of the stack.  This is why
>  Kprobes saves a copy of the stack and restores it after the jprobe
>  handler has run.  Up to MAX_STACK_SIZE bytes are copied -- e.g.,
> 


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~Randy
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