Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix typos in comments

[Bhaskar Chowdhury]

On 20:52 Sun 21 Mar 2021, Randy Dunlap wrote:

On 3/21/21 8:44 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:51:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1794,7 +1794,7 @@ bool move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned 
long old_addr,
 /*
  * Returns
  *  - 0 if PMD could not be locked
- *  - 1 if PMD was locked but protections unchange and TLB flush unnecessary
+ *  - 1 if PMD was locked but protections unchanged and TLB flush unnecessary
  *  - HPAGE_PMD_NR is protections changed and TLB flush necessary

s/is/if/

@@ -5306,7 +5306,7 @@ void adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible(struct 
vm_area_struct *vma,

        /*
         * vma need span at least one aligned PUD size and the start,end range
-        * must at least partialy within it.
+        * must at least partially within it.

         * vma needs to span at least one aligned PUD size, and the range
         * must be at least partially within in.

 /*
  * swapon tell device that all the old swap contents can be discarded,
- * to allow the swap device to optimize its wear-levelling.
+ * to allow the swap device to optimize its wear-leveling.
  */

Levelling is british english, leveling is american english.  we don't
usually "correct" one into the other.

How about "labelled" (from mm/kasan/shadow.c):

Not sure , "levelling" and "labelling" is the same thing...I think all of us
missed the context ...isn't that dictated by the context(soruce code,
effecets) ...

@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static int kasan_depopulate_vmalloc_pte(pte_t *ptep, 
unsigned long addr,
 * How does this work?
 * -------------------
 *
- * We have a region that is page aligned, labelled as A.
+ * We have a region that is page aligned, labeled as A.
 * That might not map onto the shadow in a way that is page-aligned:


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~Randy

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