Commit fc5266ea authored by Anton Blanchard's avatar Anton Blanchard Committed by Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] powerpc: trivial spelling fixes in fault.c

This comment exceeded my bad spelling threshold :)
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
parent 794e085e
......@@ -177,15 +177,15 @@ int __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
/* When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
* addresses in user space. All other faults represent errors in the
* kernel and should generate an OOPS. Unfortunatly, in the case of an
* erroneous fault occuring in a code path which already holds mmap_sem
* kernel and should generate an OOPS. Unfortunately, in the case of an
* erroneous fault occurring in a code path which already holds mmap_sem
* we will deadlock attempting to validate the fault against the
* address space. Luckily the kernel only validly references user
* space from well defined areas of code, which are listed in the
* exceptions table.
*
* As the vast majority of faults will be valid we will only perform
* the source reference check when there is a possibilty of a deadlock.
* the source reference check when there is a possibility of a deadlock.
* Attempt to lock the address space, if we cannot we then validate the
* source. If this is invalid we can skip the address space check,
* thus avoiding the deadlock.
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