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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/tlb.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 4 |
4 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt index 1a5a121..85d0549 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 @@ -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. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt b/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt index 39d1723..6a0607b 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ memory, it has two choices: from areas other than the one we are trying to flush will be destroyed and must be refilled later, at some cost. 2. Use the invlpg instruction to invalidate a single page at a - time. This could potentialy cost many more instructions, but + time. This could potentially cost many more instructions, but it is a much more precise operation, causing no collateral damage to other TLB entries. @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Which method to do depends on a few things: work. 3. The size of the TLB. The larger the TLB, the more collateral damage we do with a full flush. So, the larger the TLB, the - more attrative an individual flush looks. Data and + more attractive an individual flush looks. Data and instructions have separate TLBs, as do different page sizes. 4. The microarchitecture. The TLB has become a multi-level cache on modern CPUs, and the global flushes have become more diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck index b1fb302..d0648a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ between all CPUs. check_interval How often to poll for corrected machine check errors, in seconds - (Note output is hexademical). Default 5 minutes. When the poller + (Note output is hexadecimal). Default 5 minutes. When the poller finds MCEs it triggers an exponential speedup (poll more often) on the polling interval. When the poller stops finding MCEs, it triggers an exponential backoff (poll less often) on the polling diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index 5aa7383..8c7dd59 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -39,4 +39,8 @@ memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed). The mappings are not part of any other kernel PGD and are only available during EFI runtime calls. +Note that if CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY is enabled, the direct mapping of all +physical memory, vmalloc/ioremap space and virtual memory map are randomized. +Their order is preserved but their base will be offset early at boot time. + -Andi Kleen, Jul 2004 |