x86: Remove unusual Unicode characters from comments

We've accumulated a few unusual Unicode characters in arch/x86/
over the years, substitute them with their proper ASCII equivalents.

A few of them were a whitespace equivalent: ' ' - the use was harmless.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

4 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c
index b79951d0707c..324158107b22 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c
@@ -280,17 +280,17 @@
  * | [63]  |    00h    | VALID - When set, indicates the CPU bus
  *                       numbers have been initialized. (RO)
  * |[62:48]|    ---    | Reserved
- * |[47:40]|    00h    | BUS_NUM_5 — Return the bus number BIOS assigned
+ * |[47:40]|    00h    | BUS_NUM_5 - Return the bus number BIOS assigned
  *                       CPUBUSNO(5). (RO)
- * |[39:32]|    00h    | BUS_NUM_4 — Return the bus number BIOS assigned
+ * |[39:32]|    00h    | BUS_NUM_4 - Return the bus number BIOS assigned
  *                       CPUBUSNO(4). (RO)
- * |[31:24]|    00h    | BUS_NUM_3 — Return the bus number BIOS assigned
+ * |[31:24]|    00h    | BUS_NUM_3 - Return the bus number BIOS assigned
  *                       CPUBUSNO(3). (RO)
- * |[23:16]|    00h    | BUS_NUM_2 — Return the bus number BIOS assigned
+ * |[23:16]|    00h    | BUS_NUM_2 - Return the bus number BIOS assigned
  *                       CPUBUSNO(2). (RO)
- * |[15:8] |    00h    | BUS_NUM_1 — Return the bus number BIOS assigned
+ * |[15:8] |    00h    | BUS_NUM_1 - Return the bus number BIOS assigned
  *                       CPUBUSNO(1). (RO)
- * | [7:0] |    00h    | BUS_NUM_0 — Return the bus number BIOS assigned
+ * | [7:0] |    00h    | BUS_NUM_0 - Return the bus number BIOS assigned
  *                       CPUBUSNO(0). (RO)
  */
 #define SKX_MSR_CPU_BUS_NUMBER		0x300
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
index 9224d40cdefe..7d7500806af8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -283,12 +283,12 @@ extern u32 elf_hwcap2;
  *
  * The decision process for determining the results are:
  *
- *                 CPU: | lacks NX*  | has NX, ia32     | has NX, x86_64 |
- * ELF:                 |            |                  |                |
+ *                 CPU: | lacks NX*  | has NX, ia32     | has NX, x86_64 |
+ * ELF:                 |            |                  |                |
  * ---------------------|------------|------------------|----------------|
- * missing PT_GNU_STACK | exec-all   | exec-all         | exec-none      |
- * PT_GNU_STACK == RWX  | exec-stack | exec-stack       | exec-stack     |
- * PT_GNU_STACK == RW   | exec-none  | exec-none        | exec-none      |
+ * missing PT_GNU_STACK | exec-all   | exec-all         | exec-none      |
+ * PT_GNU_STACK == RWX  | exec-stack | exec-stack       | exec-stack     |
+ * PT_GNU_STACK == RW   | exec-none  | exec-none        | exec-none      |
  *
  *  exec-all  : all PROT_READ user mappings are executable, except when
  *              backed by files on a noexec-filesystem.
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
index cb9ad6b73973..d83ea9e5db47 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Google experimented with loop-unrolling and this turned out to be
- * the optimal version — two calls, each with their own speculation
+ * the optimal version - two calls, each with their own speculation
  * trap should their return address end up getting used, in a loop.
  */
 #define __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER(reg, nr, sp)	\
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.S b/arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.S
index d2ccadc247e6..66b317398b8a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.S
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/pvh/head.S
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@
  *          the boot start info structure.
  * - `cr0`: bit 0 (PE) must be set. All the other writeable bits are cleared.
  * - `cr4`: all bits are cleared.
- * - `cs `: must be a 32-bit read/execute code segment with a base of ‘0’
- *          and a limit of ‘0xFFFFFFFF’. The selector value is unspecified.
+ * - `cs `: must be a 32-bit read/execute code segment with a base of `0`
+ *          and a limit of `0xFFFFFFFF`. The selector value is unspecified.
  * - `ds`, `es`: must be a 32-bit read/write data segment with a base of
- *               ‘0’ and a limit of ‘0xFFFFFFFF’. The selector values are all
+ *               `0` and a limit of `0xFFFFFFFF`. The selector values are all
  *               unspecified.
  * - `tr`: must be a 32-bit TSS (active) with a base of '0' and a limit
  *         of '0x67'.