linux-kernel - [PATCH] Doc: x86: Fix typo in intel

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Message-Id: <1438081204-23349-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:00:04 +0900
From:	Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>
To:	qiaowei.ren@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, corbet@....net,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Doc: x86: Fix typo in intel_mpx.txt

This patch fix some spelling typos in intel_mpx.txt

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt
index 818518a..5cc98d5 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
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ A: This would work if we could hook the site of each and every memory
    these calls.
 
 Q: Could a bounds fault be handed to userspace and the tables allocated
-   there in a signal handler intead of in the kernel?
+   there in a signal handler instead of in the kernel?
 A: mmap() is not on the list of safe async handler functions and even
    if mmap() would work it still requires locking or nasty tricks to
    keep track of the allocation state there.
@@ -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.
-- 
2.5.0

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