From 7beeec88e5f379680abeb4244b0781e102201c0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:23:13 -0700 Subject: docs: fix core_pipe_limit info Fix typos in core_pipe_limit info. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index a028b92001ed..8f7a0e73ef44 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name. core_pipe_limit: This sysctl is only applicable when core_pattern is configured to pipe core -files to user space helper a (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|', +files to a user space helper (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|', see above). When collecting cores via a pipe to an application, it is -occasionally usefull for the collecting application to gather data about the +occasionally useful for the collecting application to gather data about the crashing process from its /proc/pid directory. In order to do this safely, the kernel must wait for the collecting process to exit, so as not to remove the crashing processes proc files prematurely. This in turn creates the possibility @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ applications in parallel. If this value is exceeded, then those crashing processes above that value are noted via the kernel log and their cores are skipped. 0 is a special value, indicating that unlimited processes may be captured in parallel, but that no waiting will take place (i.e. the collecting -process is not guaranteed access to /proc//). This value defaults +process is not guaranteed access to /proc//). This value defaults to 0. ============================================================== -- cgit v1.2.2 From af901ca181d92aac3a7dc265144a9081a86d8f39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Goddard=20Rosa?= Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:09:05 -0200 Subject: tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping" , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature" , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore" , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index a6e360d2055c..fc5790d36cd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ The default is 1 percent. mmap_min_addr This file indicates the amount of address space which a user process will -be restricted from mmaping. Since kernel null dereference bugs could +be restricted from mmapping. Since kernel null dereference bugs could accidentally operate based on the information in the first couple of pages of memory userspace processes should not be allowed to write to them. By default this value is set to 0 and no protections will be enforced by the -- cgit v1.2.2