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Message-ID: <YEcKXEO2/oz4Y/S0@ArchLinux>
Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2021 11:10:44 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, x86@...nel.org,
        hpa@...or.com, keescook@...omium.org, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        jroedel@...e.de, hjl.tools@...il.com, nivedita@...m.mit.edu,
        inglorion@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: x86: kernel: Adjust the words to suit sentences in
 the file vmlinux.lds.S

On 21:10 Mon 08 Mar 2021, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>On 3/8/21 7:41 PM, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
>>
>>
>> s/percpu/per CPU/
>> s/baremetal/bare metal/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
>
>Yeah, "bare metal" is a little better than "baremetal".
>
>OTOH, "percpu" is a kernel construct's name. It doesn't have to
>be proper English IMHO. (2 cents worth)
>

My bad ....disregard...pls...will be careful ...

>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> index efd9e9ea17f2..592a44ad13b1 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ SECTIONS
>>
>>  #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && defined(CONFIG_SMP)
>>  	/*
>> -	 * percpu offsets are zero-based on SMP.  PERCPU_VADDR() changes the
>> +	 * per CPU offsets are zero-based on SMP.  PERCPU_VADDR() changes the
>>  	 * output PHDR, so the next output section - .init.text - should
>>  	 * start another segment - init.
>>  	 */
>> @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ SECTIONS
>>  	/*
>>  	 * start address and size of operations which during runtime
>>  	 * can be patched with virtualization friendly instructions or
>> -	 * baremetal native ones. Think page table operations.
>> +	 * bare metal native ones. Think page table operations.
>>  	 * Details in paravirt_types.h
>>  	 */
>>  	. = ALIGN(8);
>> --
>
>
>--
>~Randy
>

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