svn commit: r49670 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Benjamin Kaduk bjk at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 14 13:05:22 UTC 2016


Author: bjk
Date: Mon Nov 14 13:05:21 2016
New Revision: 49670
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49670

Log:
  Correct text about shared page for HPET registers
  
  The shared page maps HPET registers; HPET does not do the mapping.
  
  Reported by:	kib
  Pointy-hat to:	bjk

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Mon Nov 14 07:27:04 2016	(r49669)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-07-2016-09.xml	Mon Nov 14 13:05:21 2016	(r49670)
@@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@
 	enhanced to allow syscall-less operation on machines that use
 	HPET hardwire for timecounters.  The HPET algorithm coexists
 	with older RDTSC-based code, allowing dynamic switching of
-	timecounters.  HPET registers a page that is
+	timecounters.  A page with HPET registers is
 	<tt>mmap(2)</tt>-ed readonly by libc into userland application
 	programs' address space as needed.  Measurements demonstrated
 	modest improvements in <tt>gettimeofday(2)</tt> performance,


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