From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
To: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>,
Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH -next] [Cleanup] x86: Fix comments of register/stack access functions
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:02:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091201000222.7669.7477.stgit@harusame> (raw)
Fix typos and some redundant comments of register/stack access functions
in asm/ptrace.h.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
index a3d49dd..3d11fd0 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,
--
Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
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