From: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware)" <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>,
Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>,
VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@vmware.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86/paravirt: clean up typos and grammaros
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 21:37:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220902213750.1124421-2-morbo@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220902213750.1124421-1-morbo@google.com>
Drive-by clean up of the comment.
[ Impact: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
index 89df6c6617f5..f04157456a49 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ int paravirt_disable_iospace(void);
* Unfortunately, this is a relatively slow operation for modern CPUs,
* because it cannot necessarily determine what the destination
* address is. In this case, the address is a runtime constant, so at
- * the very least we can patch the call to e a simple direct call, or
+ * the very least we can patch the call to a simple direct call, or,
* ideally, patch an inline implementation into the callsite. (Direct
* calls are essentially free, because the call and return addresses
* are completely predictable.)
@@ -339,10 +339,10 @@ int paravirt_disable_iospace(void);
* on the stack. All caller-save registers (eax,edx,ecx) are expected
* to be modified (either clobbered or used for return values).
* X86_64, on the other hand, already specifies a register-based calling
- * conventions, returning at %rax, with parameters going on %rdi, %rsi,
+ * conventions, returning at %rax, with parameters going in %rdi, %rsi,
* %rdx, and %rcx. Note that for this reason, x86_64 does not need any
* special handling for dealing with 4 arguments, unlike i386.
- * However, x86_64 also have to clobber all caller saved registers, which
+ * However, x86_64 also has to clobber all caller saved registers, which
* unfortunately, are quite a bit (r8 - r11)
*
* The call instruction itself is marked by placing its start address
@@ -360,22 +360,22 @@ int paravirt_disable_iospace(void);
* There are 5 sets of PVOP_* macros for dealing with 0-4 arguments.
* It could be extended to more arguments, but there would be little
* to be gained from that. For each number of arguments, there are
- * the two VCALL and CALL variants for void and non-void functions.
+ * two VCALL and CALL variants for void and non-void functions.
*
* When there is a return value, the invoker of the macro must specify
* the return type. The macro then uses sizeof() on that type to
- * determine whether its a 32 or 64 bit value, and places the return
+ * determine whether it's a 32 or 64 bit value and places the return
* in the right register(s) (just %eax for 32-bit, and %edx:%eax for
- * 64-bit). For x86_64 machines, it just returns at %rax regardless of
+ * 64-bit). For x86_64 machines, it just returns in %rax regardless of
* the return value size.
*
- * 64-bit arguments are passed as a pair of adjacent 32-bit arguments
+ * 64-bit arguments are passed as a pair of adjacent 32-bit arguments;
* i386 also passes 64-bit arguments as a pair of adjacent 32-bit arguments
* in low,high order
*
* Small structures are passed and returned in registers. The macro
* calling convention can't directly deal with this, so the wrapper
- * functions must do this.
+ * functions must do it.
*
* These PVOP_* macros are only defined within this header. This
* means that all uses must be wrapped in inline functions. This also
--
2.37.2.789.g6183377224-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-02 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-02 21:37 [PATCH 0/2] fix clobbers list with ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS feature Bill Wendling
2022-09-02 21:37 ` Bill Wendling [this message]
2022-09-03 4:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/paravirt: clean up typos and grammaros Borislav Petkov
2022-09-04 2:13 ` Bill Wendling
2022-09-02 21:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/paravirt: add extra clobbers with ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS enabled Bill Wendling
2022-09-03 7:18 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-05 6:02 ` Bill Wendling
2022-09-07 6:00 ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-09-07 8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-07 23:10 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-08 21:16 ` Bill Wendling
2022-09-14 14:40 ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-09-14 15:49 ` Bill Wendling
[not found] ` <20220914162149.71271-1-morbo@google.com>
2022-09-15 6:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/1] x86/paravirt: write paravirt ident function in assembly Juergen Gross
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