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Subject[tip:perf/core] kprobes/Documentation: Fix various typos
Commit-ID:  01bdee64f9cf8e15f998bf52789ed9d0ebdfa621
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/01bdee64f9cf8e15f998bf52789ed9d0ebdfa621
Author: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:07:40 +0900
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:10:55 +0200

kprobes/Documentation: Fix various typos

Fix typos and clean up the wording, with the help of Randy Dunlap.

Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180622150740.bd26241032c972d86e23bf73@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/kprobes.txt | 24 ++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
index 13d8efdb9718..10f4499e677c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
@@ -83,22 +83,22 @@ Execution then continues with the instruction following the probepoint.
Changing Execution Path
-----------------------

-Since the kprobes can probe into a running kernel code, it can change
-the register set, including instruction pointer. This operation
-requires maximum attention, such as keeping the stack frame, recovering
-execution path etc. Since it is operated on running kernel and need deep
-knowladge of the archtecture and concurrent computing, you can easily
-shot your foot.
+Since kprobes can probe into a running kernel code, it can change the
+register set, including instruction pointer. This operation requires
+maximum care, such as keeping the stack frame, recovering the execution
+path etc. Since it operates on a running kernel and needs deep knowledge
+of computer architecture and concurrent computing, you can easily shoot
+your foot.

If you change the instruction pointer (and set up other related
-registers) in pre_handler, you must return !0 so that the kprobes
-stops single stepping and just returns to given address.
+registers) in pre_handler, you must return !0 so that kprobes stops
+single stepping and just returns to the given address.
This also means post_handler should not be called anymore.

-Note that this operation may be harder on some architectures which
-use TOC (Table of Contents) for function call, since you have to
-setup new TOC for your function in your module, and recover old
-one after back from it.
+Note that this operation may be harder on some architectures which use
+TOC (Table of Contents) for function call, since you have to setup a new
+TOC for your function in your module, and recover the old one after
+returning from it.

Return Probes
-------------
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