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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index ccd32013c47a..9d3a971ea364 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void) * Don't stop machine check exceptions while patching. * MCEs only happen when something got corrupted and in this * case we must do something about the corruption. - * Ignoring it is worse than a unlikely patching race. + * Ignoring it is worse than an unlikely patching race. * Also machine checks tend to be broadcast and if one CPU * goes into machine check the others follow quickly, so we don't * expect a machine check to cause undue problems during to code @@ -753,8 +753,8 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void) * When you use this code to patch more than one byte of an instruction * you need to make sure that other CPUs cannot execute this code in parallel. * Also no thread must be currently preempted in the middle of these - * instructions. And on the local CPU you need to be protected again NMI or MCE - * handlers seeing an inconsistent instruction while you patch. + * instructions. And on the local CPU you need to be protected against NMI or + * MCE handlers seeing an inconsistent instruction while you patch. */ void __init_or_module text_poke_early(void *addr, const void *opcode, size_t len) |