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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/entry.rst b/Documentation/core-api/entry.rst index e12f22ab33c7..71d8eedc0549 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/entry.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/entry.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ exceptions`_, `NMI and NMI-like exceptions`_. Non-instrumentable code - noinstr --------------------------------- -Most instrumentation facilities depend on RCU, so intrumentation is prohibited +Most instrumentation facilities depend on RCU, so instrumentation is prohibited for entry code before RCU starts watching and exit code after RCU stops watching. In addition, many architectures must save and restore register state, which means that (for example) a breakpoint in the breakpoint entry code would @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ has to do extra work between the various steps. In such cases it has to ensure that enter_from_user_mode() is called first on entry and exit_to_user_mode() is called last on exit. -Do not nest syscalls. Nested systcalls will cause RCU and/or context tracking +Do not nest syscalls. Nested syscalls will cause RCU and/or context tracking to print a warning. KVM @@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ Entering or exiting guest mode is very similar to syscalls. From the host kernel point of view the CPU goes off into user space when entering the guest and returns to the kernel on exit. -kvm_guest_enter_irqoff() is a KVM-specific variant of exit_to_user_mode() -and kvm_guest_exit_irqoff() is the KVM variant of enter_from_user_mode(). +guest_state_enter_irqoff() is a KVM-specific variant of exit_to_user_mode() +and guest_state_exit_irqoff() is the KVM variant of enter_from_user_mode(). The state operations have the same ordering. Task work handling is done separately for guest at the boundary of the |