linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] x86: fix typo in comment for alternative

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Message-Id: <20190902102436.27396-2-marco.ammon@fau.de>
Date:   Mon,  2 Sep 2019 12:24:35 +0200
From:   Marco Ammon <marco.ammon@....de>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        trivial@...nel.org, Marco Ammon <marco.ammon@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] x86: fix typo in comment for alternative_instructions

In the documentation for alternative_instructions, "a unlikely" should
actually be "an unlikely". This patch fixes the mistake.

Signed-off-by: Marco Ammon <marco.ammon@....de>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 0eefd497e3d8..9d3a971ea364 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void)
 	 * Don't stop machine check exceptions while patching.
 	 * MCEs only happen when something got corrupted and in this
 	 * case we must do something about the corruption.
-	 * Ignoring it is worse than a unlikely patching race.
+	 * Ignoring it is worse than an unlikely patching race.
 	 * Also machine checks tend to be broadcast and if one CPU
 	 * goes into machine check the others follow quickly, so we don't
 	 * expect a machine check to cause undue problems during to code
-- 
2.23.0