From: Min-Hsun Chang <chmh0624@gmail.com>
To: corbet@lwn.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Min-Hsun Chang <chmh0624@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] Docs/mm: fix typos and grammar in page_tables.rst
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 22:56:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260209145603.96664-1-chmh0624@gmail.com> (raw)
Correct several spelling and grammatical errors in the page tables
documentation. This includes:
- Fixing "a address" to "an address"
- Fixing "pfs" to "pfns"
- Correcting the possessive "Torvald's" to "Torvalds's"
- Fixing "instruction that want" to "instruction that wants"
- Fixing "code path" to "code paths"
Signed-off-by: Min-Hsun Chang <chmh0624@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst
index e7c69cc32493..126c87628250 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/page_tables.rst
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ Physical memory address 0 will be *pfn 0* and the highest pfn will be
the last page of physical memory the external address bus of the CPU can
address.
-With a page granularity of 4KB and a address range of 32 bits, pfn 0 is at
+With a page granularity of 4KB and an address range of 32 bits, pfn 0 is at
address 0x00000000, pfn 1 is at address 0x00001000, pfn 2 is at 0x00002000
-and so on until we reach pfn 0xfffff at 0xfffff000. With 16KB pages pfs are
+and so on until we reach pfn 0xfffff at 0xfffff000. With 16KB pages pfns are
at 0x00004000, 0x00008000 ... 0xffffc000 and pfn goes from 0 to 0x3ffff.
As you can see, with 4KB pages the page base address uses bits 12-31 of the
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ address, and this is why `PAGE_SHIFT` in this case is defined as 12 and
Over time a deeper hierarchy has been developed in response to increasing memory
sizes. When Linux was created, 4KB pages and a single page table called
`swapper_pg_dir` with 1024 entries was used, covering 4MB which coincided with
-the fact that Torvald's first computer had 4MB of physical memory. Entries in
-this single table were referred to as *PTE*:s - page table entries.
+the fact that Torvalds's first computer had 4MB of physical memory. Entries in
+this single table were referred to as *PTEs* - page table entries.
The software page table hierarchy reflects the fact that page table hardware has
become hierarchical and that in turn is done to save page table memory and
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ threshold.
Additionally, page faults may be also caused by code bugs or by maliciously
crafted addresses that the CPU is instructed to access. A thread of a process
could use instructions to address (non-shared) memory which does not belong to
-its own address space, or could try to execute an instruction that want to write
+its own address space, or could try to execute an instruction that wants to write
to a read-only location.
If the above-mentioned conditions happen in user-space, the kernel sends a
@@ -277,5 +277,5 @@ To conclude this high altitude view of how Linux handles page faults, let's
add that the page faults handler can be disabled and enabled respectively with
`pagefault_disable()` and `pagefault_enable()`.
-Several code path make use of the latter two functions because they need to
+Several code paths make use of the latter two functions because they need to
disable traps into the page faults handler, mostly to prevent deadlocks.
--
2.50.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-09 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-09 14:56 Min-Hsun Chang [this message]
2026-02-09 15:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-02-09 16:17 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-02-09 22:50 ` Linus Walleij
2026-02-14 17:13 ` Jonathan Corbet
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