[PATCH] powerpc: trivial spelling fixes in fault.c
This comment exceeded my bad spelling threshold :) Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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@ -177,15 +177,15 @@ int __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
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/* When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
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* addresses in user space. All other faults represent errors in the
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* kernel and should generate an OOPS. Unfortunatly, in the case of an
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* erroneous fault occuring in a code path which already holds mmap_sem
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* kernel and should generate an OOPS. Unfortunately, in the case of an
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* erroneous fault occurring in a code path which already holds mmap_sem
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* we will deadlock attempting to validate the fault against the
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* address space. Luckily the kernel only validly references user
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* space from well defined areas of code, which are listed in the
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* exceptions table.
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*
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* As the vast majority of faults will be valid we will only perform
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* the source reference check when there is a possibilty of a deadlock.
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* the source reference check when there is a possibility of a deadlock.
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* Attempt to lock the address space, if we cannot we then validate the
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* source. If this is invalid we can skip the address space check,
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* thus avoiding the deadlock.
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