From patchwork Tue May 5 15:10:49 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Waiman Long X-Patchwork-Id: 11529403 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776B617E8 for ; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54EC220836 for ; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="F4fJb9fU" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729332AbgEEPLJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2020 11:11:09 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com ([205.139.110.120]:26020 "EHLO us-smtp-1.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729261AbgEEPLI (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2020 11:11:08 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1588691467; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc; bh=QDdz0u1MDabvWLnuf8Me9gjoJIrk3ictomM8OSd7hgE=; b=F4fJb9fUnn9wLhSrCoiiHaWvW/6fc2eumXUU59lyAcwb8PlPj82IW7cIzPYAF5TD6jdZwV qx4arJ4Uf44VyeX281Iv3HOv4iLqr0AzCQcKaUF+IAVPOI3hpKh9XR7R6au6QrR83SpaxA t6aE37p3pQziAJ+Y7hCkoDGg3dFLO/U= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-170-UqbHH1zxM6yBvkxPJMqzEA-1; Tue, 05 May 2020 11:11:05 -0400 X-MC-Unique: UqbHH1zxM6yBvkxPJMqzEA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E690A872FEA; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:11:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from llong.com (ovpn-114-81.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.114.81]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D295D9D5; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:10:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Waiman Long To: Jonathan Corbet , Tony Luck , Borislav Petkov , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , James Morse , Robert Richter Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Waiman Long Subject: [PATCH] doc: Fix some typo errors in ras.rst Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 11:10:49 -0400 Message-Id: <20200505151049.11134-1-longman@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 Sender: linux-edac-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org Fix typo errors. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long --- Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst index 0310db624964..8b1803b2606f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst @@ -156,10 +156,10 @@ the labels provided by the BIOS won't match the real ones. ECC memory ---------- -As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to be -used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module -has 64 bits of *data width*, and 74 bits of *total width*. So, there are -8 bits extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction +As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to +be used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module +has 64 bits of *data width*, and 72 bits of *total width*. So, there +are 8 extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction mechanisms. Those extra bits are called *syndrome*\ [#f1]_\ [#f2]_. So, when the cpu requests the memory controller to write a word with