Commit 4538480b authored by Amit Vadhavana's avatar Amit Vadhavana Committed by Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes

Correct spelling mistakes in the documentation to improve readability.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmit Vadhavana <av2082000@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240817072724.6861-1-av2082000@gmail.com
parent 4a93831d
......@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ Driver updates for STM32 DMA-MDMA chaining support in foo driver
descriptor you want a callback to be called at the end of the transfer
(dmaengine_prep_slave_sg()) or the period (dmaengine_prep_dma_cyclic()).
Depending on the direction, set the callback on the descriptor that finishes
the overal transfer:
the overall transfer:
* DMA_DEV_TO_MEM: set the callback on the "MDMA" descriptor
* DMA_MEM_TO_DEV: set the callback on the "DMA" descriptor
......@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ Driver updates for STM32 DMA-MDMA chaining support in foo driver
As STM32 MDMA channel transfer is triggered by STM32 DMA, you must issue
STM32 MDMA channel before STM32 DMA channel.
If any, your callback will be called to warn you about the end of the overal
If any, your callback will be called to warn you about the end of the overall
transfer or the period completion.
Don't forget to terminate both channels. STM32 DMA channel is configured in
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......@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ There are no systems that support the physical addition (or removal) of CPUs
while the system is running, and ACPI is not able to sufficiently describe
them.
e.g. New CPUs come with new caches, but the platform's cache toplogy is
e.g. New CPUs come with new caches, but the platform's cache topology is
described in a static table, the PPTT. How caches are shared between CPUs is
not discoverable, and must be described by firmware.
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......@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Hardware
* PTCR and partition table entries (partition table is in secure
memory). An attempt to write to PTCR will cause a Hypervisor
Emulation Assitance interrupt.
Emulation Assistance interrupt.
* LDBAR (LD Base Address Register) and IMC (In-Memory Collection)
non-architected registers. An attempt to write to them will cause a
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......@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ status for the use of Vector in userspace. The intended usage guideline for
these interfaces is to give init systems a way to modify the availability of V
for processes running under its domain. Calling these interfaces is not
recommended in libraries routines because libraries should not override policies
configured from the parant process. Also, users must noted that these interfaces
configured from the parent process. Also, users must note that these interfaces
are not portable to non-Linux, nor non-RISC-V environments, so it is discourage
to use in a portable code. To get the availability of V in an ELF program,
please read :c:macro:`COMPAT_HWCAP_ISA_V` bit of :c:macro:`ELF_HWCAP` in the
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......@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Mitigation points
3. It would take a large number of these precisely-timed NMIs to mount
an actual attack. There's presumably not enough bandwidth.
4. The NMI in question occurs after a VERW, i.e. when user state is
restored and most interesting data is already scrubbed. Whats left
restored and most interesting data is already scrubbed. What's left
is only the data that NMI touches, and that may or may not be of
any interest.
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......@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ FSGSBASE instructions enablement
FSGSBASE instructions compiler support
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
GCC version 4.6.4 and newer provide instrinsics for the FSGSBASE
GCC version 4.6.4 and newer provide intrinsics for the FSGSBASE
instructions. Clang 5 supports them as well.
=================== ===========================
......@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ instructions. Clang 5 supports them as well.
_writegsbase_u64() Write the GS base register
=================== ===========================
To utilize these instrinsics <immintrin.h> must be included in the source
To utilize these intrinsics <immintrin.h> must be included in the source
code and the compiler option -mfsgsbase has to be added.
Compiler support for FS/GS based addressing
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