linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] English fixes in vmalloced kernel stacks documentation

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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:33:53 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Nir Lichtman <nir@...htman.org>, corbet@....net,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] English fixes in vmalloced kernel stacks documentation

Hi,

On 6/19/24 2:07 PM, Nir Lichtman wrote:
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ with PAGE_KERNEL protections.
>  
>  Thread stack allocation is initiated from clone(), fork(), vfork(),
>  kernel_thread() via kernel_clone(). Leaving a few hints for searching
> -the code base to understand when and how thread stack is allocated.
> +the code base to understand when and how a thread stack is allocated.

That last part is still not a sentence AFAICT. How about something like:

>  Thread stack allocation is initiated from clone(), fork(), vfork(),
>  kernel_thread() via kernel_clone(). These are a few hints for searching
>  the code base to understand when and how a thread stack is allocated.

-- 
~Randy