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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-13 10:51:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-13 10:51:53 -0700
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Merge tag 'docs-6.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Another not-too-busy cycle for documentation, including: - Some build-system changes to detect the variable fonts installed by some distributions that can break the PDF build. - Various updates and additions to the Spanish, Chinese, Italian, and Japanese translations. - Update the stable-kernel rules to match modern practice ... and the usual array of corrections, updates, and typo fixes" * tag 'docs-6.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (42 commits) cgroup: Add documentation for missing zswap memory.stat kernel-doc: Added "*" in $type_constants2 to fix 'make htmldocs' warning. docs:core-api: fixed typos and grammar in printk-index page Documentation: tracing: Fix spelling mistakes docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of quick-start to 6.9-rc4 docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of general-information to 6.9-rc4 docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of coding-guidelines to 6.9-rc4 docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of arch-support to 6.9-rc4 docs: stable-kernel-rules: fix typo sent->send docs/zh_CN: remove two inconsistent spaces docs: scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh: Improve commands for detection docs: stable-kernel-rules: create special tag to flag 'no backporting' docs: stable-kernel-rules: explain use of stable@kernel.org (w/o @vger.) docs: stable-kernel-rules: remove code-labels tags and a indention level docs: stable-kernel-rules: call mainline by its name and change example docs: stable-kernel-rules: reduce redundancy docs, kprobes: Add riscv as supported architecture Docs: typos/spelling docs: kernel_include.py: Cope with docutils 0.21 docs: ja_JP/howto: Catch up update in v6.8 ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
index cf1eeefdfc32..a92e10ec402e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ arg4:
will be performed for all tasks in the task group of ``pid``.
arg5:
- userspace pointer to an unsigned long for storing the cookie returned by
- ``PR_SCHED_CORE_GET`` command. Should be 0 for all other commands.
+ userspace pointer to an unsigned long long for storing the cookie returned
+ by ``PR_SCHED_CORE_GET`` command. Should be 0 for all other commands.
In order for a process to push a cookie to, or pull a cookie from a process, it
is required to have the ptrace access mode: `PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS` to the
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst
index e715bfc09879..4bd3ce3ba171 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ and does not want to suffer the performance impact, one can always
disable the mitigation with spec_rstack_overflow=off.
Similarly, 'Mitigation: IBPB' is another full mitigation type employing
-an indrect branch prediction barrier after having applied the required
+an indirect branch prediction barrier after having applied the required
microcode patch for one's system. This mitigation comes also at
a performance cost.