Commit c8e84d2f authored by Eric Engestrom's avatar Eric Engestrom Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes 



Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt

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@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ A: MPX-enabled application will possibly create a lot of bounds tables in 
   If we were to preallocate them for the 128TB of user virtual address

   space, we would need to reserve 512TB+2GB, which is larger than the

   entire virtual address space today. This means they can not be reserved

   ahead of time. Also, a single process's pre-popualated bounds directory

   ahead of time. Also, a single process's pre-populated bounds directory

   consumes 2GB of virtual *AND* physical memory. IOW, it's completely

   infeasible to prepopulate bounds directories.
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ A: This would work if we could hook the site of each and every memory 
   these calls.



Q: Could a bounds fault be handed to userspace and the tables allocated

   there in a signal handler intead of in the kernel?

   there in a signal handler instead of in the kernel?

A: mmap() is not on the list of safe async handler functions and even

   if mmap() would work it still requires locking or nasty tricks to

   keep track of the allocation state there.