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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sched, x86: Fix typo in comments in __switch_to()
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:31:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151014143119.78858eeb@r5> (raw)

Fix obvious mistake: FS/GS should be DS/ES.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index d7f1d5c..e835d26 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ __switch_to(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p)
 	/*
 	 * Switch FS and GS.
 	 *
-	 * These are even more complicated than FS and GS: they have
+	 * These are even more complicated than DS and ES: they have
 	 * 64-bit bases are that controlled by arch_prctl.  Those bases
 	 * only differ from the values in the GDT or LDT if the selector
 	 * is 0.

             reply	other threads:[~2015-10-14 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-14 18:31 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2015-10-19 17:48 ` [tip:sched/core] sched/x86: Fix typo in __switch_to() comments tip-bot for Chuck Ebbert

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