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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-11-30 19:02:22 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-12-02 10:22:22 +0100
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x86: Fix comments of register/stack access functions
Fix typos and some redundant comments of register/stack access functions in asm/ptrace.h. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com> Cc: Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20091201000222.7669.7477.stgit@harusame> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Suggested-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
index a3d49dd7d26e..3d11fd0f44c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ extern const char *regs_query_register_name(unsigned int offset);
* @regs: pt_regs from which register value is gotten.
* @offset: offset number of the register.
*
- * regs_get_register returns the value of a register whose offset from @regs
- * is @offset. The @offset is the offset of the register in struct pt_regs.
+ * regs_get_register returns the value of a register. The @offset is the
+ * offset of the register in struct pt_regs address which specified by @regs.
* If @offset is bigger than MAX_REG_OFFSET, this returns 0.
*/
static inline unsigned long regs_get_register(struct pt_regs *regs,
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static inline unsigned long regs_get_register(struct pt_regs *regs,
* @regs: pt_regs which contains kernel stack pointer.
* @addr: address which is checked.
*
- * regs_within_kenel_stack() checks @addr is within the kernel stack page(s).
+ * regs_within_kernel_stack() checks @addr is within the kernel stack page(s).
* If @addr is within the kernel stack, it returns true. If not, returns false.
*/
static inline int regs_within_kernel_stack(struct pt_regs *regs,
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ static inline int regs_within_kernel_stack(struct pt_regs *regs,
* @n: stack entry number.
*
* regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() returns @n th entry of the kernel stack which
- * is specifined by @regs. If the @n th entry is NOT in the kernel stack,
+ * is specified by @regs. If the @n th entry is NOT in the kernel stack,
* this returns 0.
*/
static inline unsigned long regs_get_kernel_stack_nth(struct pt_regs *regs,