From 48dce4baf47ae250589cbc778799350d03f26367 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: null Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 16:39:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fixing spelling mistake --- SysCall/syscall-3.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/SysCall/syscall-3.md b/SysCall/syscall-3.md index b168c70..c01eb08 100644 --- a/SysCall/syscall-3.md +++ b/SysCall/syscall-3.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ We already know what is a `system call`. This is special routine in the Linux ke Introduction to vsyscalls -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -The `vsyscall` or `virtual system call` is the first and oldest mechinism in the Linux kernel that is designed to accelerate execution of certain system calls. The principle of work of the `vsyscall` concept is simple. The Linux kernel maps into user space a page that contains some variables and the implementation of some system calls. We can find information about this memory space in the Linux kernel [documentation](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt) for the [x86_64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64): +The `vsyscall` or `virtual system call` is the first and oldest mechanism in the Linux kernel that is designed to accelerate execution of certain system calls. The principle of work of the `vsyscall` concept is simple. The Linux kernel maps into user space a page that contains some variables and the implementation of some system calls. We can find information about this memory space in the Linux kernel [documentation](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt) for the [x86_64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64): ``` ffffffffff600000 - ffffffffffdfffff (=8 MB) vsyscalls