[bootlin/training-materials updates] master: training: slides: fix link and improve sentence about kernel VMAs (b4babd16)

Luca Ceresoli luca.ceresoli at bootlin.com
Mon Aug 21 18:13:50 CEST 2023


Repository : https://github.com/bootlin/training-materials
On branch  : master
Link       : https://github.com/bootlin/training-materials/commit/b4babd16b3d0897cee6e5670336a0b48d08c2349

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commit b4babd16b3d0897cee6e5670336a0b48d08c2349
Author: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli at bootlin.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 21 18:13:50 2023 +0200

    training: slides: fix link and improve sentence about kernel VMAs
    
    struct vma does not exist.
    
    Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli at bootlin.com>


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b4babd16b3d0897cee6e5670336a0b48d08c2349
 .../debugging-linux-application-stack.tex                             | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/slides/debugging-linux-application-stack/debugging-linux-application-stack.tex b/slides/debugging-linux-application-stack/debugging-linux-application-stack.tex
index 6760be79..1ebad86e 100644
--- a/slides/debugging-linux-application-stack/debugging-linux-application-stack.tex
+++ b/slides/debugging-linux-application-stack/debugging-linux-application-stack.tex
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@
 \begin{frame}[fragile]
   \frametitle{Userspace memory segments}
   \begin{itemize}
-    \item When starting a process, the kernel sets up a number of various memory
-          segments (named VMAs and backed by \kstruct{vma}) that have
+    \item When starting a process, the kernel sets up several {\em Virtual
+          Memory Area}s (VMA), backed by \kstruct{vm_area_struct}), with
           different execution attributes.
     \item VMA are actually memory zones that are mapped with specific
           attributes (R/W/X).




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