[PATCH 24/41] Documentation: fb: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-24 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/fb/udlfb.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/fb/udlfb.txt b/Documentation/fb/udlfb.txt
index 57d2f29..c985cb6 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/udlfb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/udlfb.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ pairing that with a hardware framebuffer (16MB) on the other 
end of the
 USB wire.  That hardware framebuffer is able to drive the VGA, DVI, or HDMI
 monitor with no CPU involvement until a pixel has to change.
 
-The CPU or other local resource does all the rendering; optinally compares the
+The CPU or other local resource does all the rendering; optionally compares the
 result with a local shadow of the remote hardware framebuffer to identify
 the minimal set of pixels that have changed; and compresses and sends those
 pixels line-by-line via USB bulk transfers.
@@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ means that from a hardware and fbdev software perspective, 
everything is good.
 At that point, a /dev/fb? interface will be present for user-mode applications
 to open and begin writing to the framebuffer of the DisplayLink device using
 standard fbdev calls.  Note that if mmap() is used, by default the user mode
-application must send down damage notifcations to trigger repaints of the
+application must send down damage notifications to trigger repaints of the
 changed regions.  Alternatively, udlfb can be recompiled with experimental
 defio support enabled, to support a page-fault based detection mechanism
-that can work without explicit notifcation.
+that can work without explicit notification.
 
 The most common client of udlfb is xf86-video-displaylink or a modified
 xf86-video-fbdev X server. These servers have no real DisplayLink specific
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[PATCH 05/41] Documentation: cpu-hotplug: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-24 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
index dd68821..12e0b8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ from the map depending on the event is hot-add/hot-remove. 
There are currently
 no locking rules as of now. Typical usage is to init topology during boot,
 at which time hotplug is disabled.
 
-You really dont need to manipulate any of the system cpu maps. They should
+You really don't need to manipulate any of the system cpu maps. They should
 be read-only for most use. When setting up per-cpu resources almost always use
 cpu_possible_mask/for_each_possible_cpu() to iterate.
 
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[PATCH 03/41] Documentation: arm: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-24 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/arm/Atmel/README   | 2 +-
 Documentation/arm/keystone/knav-qmss.txt | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Atmel/README b/Documentation/arm/Atmel/README
index 0931cf7..adffac7 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/Atmel/README
+++ b/Documentation/arm/Atmel/README
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ git branches/tags and email subject always contain this 
"at91" sub-string.
 
 AT91 SoCs
 -
-Documentation and detailled datasheet for each product are available on
+Documentation and detailed datasheet for each product are available on
 the Atmel website: http://www.atmel.com.
 
   Flavors:
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/keystone/knav-qmss.txt 
b/Documentation/arm/keystone/knav-qmss.txt
index fcdb9fd..d15bf9a 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/keystone/knav-qmss.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/keystone/knav-qmss.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ accumulator channels defined in DTS (example in DT 
documentation) to monitor
 CPPI/QMSS Low Level Driver document (docs/CPPI_QMSS_LLD_SDS.pdf) at
git://git.ti.com/keystone-rtos/qmss-lld.git
 
-k2_qmss_pdsp_acc48_k2_le_1_0_0_9.bin firmware supports upto 48 accumulator
+k2_qmss_pdsp_acc48_k2_le_1_0_0_9.bin firmware supports up to 48 accumulator
 channels. This firmware is available under ti-keystone folder of
 firmware.git at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
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[PATCH 25/41] Documentation: filesystems: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-24 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt  | 6 +++---
 Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES | 2 +-
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 ++--
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt  | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt 
b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt
index 39d02e1..25fe9db 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4.txt
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ unmount any filesystems mounted on the autofs filesystem or 
remove any
 symbolic links or empty directories any time it likes.  If the unmount
 or removal is successful the filesystem will be returned to the state
 it was before the mount or creation, so that any access of the name
-will trigger normal auto-mount processing.  In particlar, `rmdir` and
+will trigger normal auto-mount processing.  In particular, `rmdir` and
 `unlink` do not leave negative entries in the dcache as a normal
 filesystem would, so an attempt to access a recently-removed object is
 passed to autofs for handling.
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ time stamp on each directory or symlink.  For symlinks it 
genuinely
 does record the last time the symlink was "used" or followed to find
 out where it points to.  For directories the field is a slight
 misnomer.  It actually records the last time that autofs checked if
-the directory or one of its descendents was busy and found that it
+the directory or one of its descendants was busy and found that it
 was.  This is just as useful and doesn't require updating the field so
 often.
 
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ up.
 
 There is an option with indirect mounts to consider each of the leaves
 that has been mounted on instead of considering the top-level names.
-This is intended for compatability with version 4 of autofs and should
+This is intended for compatibility with version 4 of autofs and should
 be considered as deprecated.
 
 When autofs considers a directory it checks the `last_used` time and
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES 
b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES
index bc0025c..fe8f1ed 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ Fix internationalization problem in cifs readdir with 
filenames that map to
 longer UTF-8 strings than the string on the wire was in Unicode.  Add 
workaround
 for readdir to netapp servers. Fix search rewind (seek into readdir to return 
 non-consecutive entries).  Do not do readdir when server negotiates 
-buffer size to small to fit filename. Add support for reading POSIX ACLs from
+buffer size too small to fit filename. Add support for reading POSIX ACLs from
 the server (add also acl and noacl mount options).
 
 Version 1.24
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt 
b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 7f5607a..03b6019 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ accessed.
 "Anonymous" shows the amount of memory that does not belong to any file.  Even
 a mapping associated with a file may contain anonymous pages: when MAP_PRIVATE
 and a page is modified, the file page is replaced by a private anonymous copy.
-"AnonHugePages" shows the ammount of memory backed by transparent hugepage.
+"AnonHugePages" shows the amount of memory backed by transparent hugepage.
 "Shared_Hugetlb" and "Private_Hugetlb" show the ammounts of memory backed by
 hugetlbfs page which is *not* counted in "RSS" or "PSS" field for historical
 reasons. And these are not included in {Shared,Private}_{Clean,Dirty} field.
@@ -1899,7 +1899,7 @@ hidepid=1 means users may not access any /proc// 
directories but their
 own.  Sensitive files like cmdline, sched*, status are now protected against
 other users.  This makes it impossible to learn whether any user runs
 specific program (given the program doesn't reveal itself by its behaviour).
-As an additional bonus, as /proc//cmdline is unaccessible for other users,
+As an additional bonus, as /proc//cmdline is inaccessible for other users,
 poorly written programs passing sensitive information via program arguments are
 now protected against local eavesdroppers.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt 
b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 4164bd6..ec67866 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
Useful for some pseudo filesystems (sockfs, pipefs, ...) to delay
pathname generation. (Instead of doing it when dentry is created,
it's done only when the path is needed.). Real filesystems probably
-   dont want to use it, because their dentries are present in global
+   don't want to use it, because their dentries are present in global
dcache ha

[PATCH 26/41] Documentation: kasan: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-24 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/kasan.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt
index 7dd95b3..9c696e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kasan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Memory state around the buggy address:
  8800693bc800: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ==
 
-The header of the report discribe what kind of bug happened and what kind of
+The header of the report describe what kind of bug happened and what kind of
 access caused it. It's followed by the description of the accessed slub object
 (see 'SLUB Debug output' section in Documentation/vm/slub.txt for details) and
 the description of the accessed memory page.
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[PATCH 30/41] Documentation: networking: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt | 6 +++---
 Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt | 6 +++---
 Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt | 6 +++---
 Documentation/networking/vrf.txt| 2 +-
 Documentation/networking/xfrm_sync.txt  | 6 +++---
 5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt 
b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt
index 3f24df8..50b8589 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This is the driver for the Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet (TSE) 
controllers
 using the SGDMA and MSGDMA soft DMA IP components. The driver uses the
 platform bus to obtain component resources. The designs used to test this
 driver were built for a Cyclone(R) V SOC FPGA board, a Cyclone(R) V FPGA board,
-and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts seperately. The anticipated use
+and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts separately. The anticipated use
 cases are simple communications between an embedded system and an external peer
 for status and simple configuration of the embedded system.
 
@@ -65,14 +65,14 @@ Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by 
using:
 4.1) Transmit process
 When the driver's transmit routine is called by the kernel, it sets up a
 transmit descriptor by calling the underlying DMA transmit routine (SGDMA or
-MSGDMA), and initites a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an
+MSGDMA), and initiates a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an
 interrupt is driven by the transmit DMA logic. The driver handles the transmit
 completion in the context of the interrupt handling chain by recycling
 resource required to send and track the requested transmit operation.
 
 4.2) Receive process
 The driver will post receive buffers to the receive DMA logic during driver
-intialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the
+initialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the
 underlying DMA logic (MSGDMA is able queue receive buffers, SGDMA is not able
 to queue receive buffers to the SGDMA receive logic). When a packet is
 received, the DMA logic generates an interrupt. The driver handles a receive
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt 
b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt
index cf99639..14422f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvlan.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Initial Release:
This is conceptually very similar to the macvlan driver with one major
 exception of using L3 for mux-ing /demux-ing among slaves. This property makes
 the master device share the L2 with it's slave devices. I have developed this
-driver in conjuntion with network namespaces and not sure if there is use case
+driver in conjunction with network namespaces and not sure if there is use case
 outside of it.
 
 
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ out. In this mode the slaves will RX/TX multicast and 
broadcast (if applicable)
 as well.
 
 4.2 L3 mode:
-   In this mode TX processing upto L3 happens on the stack instance 
attached
+   In this mode TX processing up to L3 happens on the stack instance 
attached
 to the slave device and packets are switched to the stack instance of the
 master device for the L2 processing and routing from that instance will be
 used before packets are queued on the outbound device. In this mode the slaves
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ situations defines your use case then you can choose to use 
ipvlan -
(a) The Linux host that is connected to the external switch / router has
 policy configured that allows only one mac per port.
(b) No of virtual devices created on a master exceed the mac capacity 
and
-puts the NIC in promiscous mode and degraded performance is a concern.
+puts the NIC in promiscuous mode and degraded performance is a concern.
(c) If the slave device is to be put into the hostile / untrusted 
network
 namespace where L2 on the slave could be changed / misused.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt 
b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
index f4be85e..2c4e335 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
@@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ The two basic thread commands are:
  * add_device DEVICE@NAME -- adds a single device
  * rem_device_all -- remove all associated devices
 
-When adding a device to a thread, a corrosponding procfile is created
+When adding a device to a thread, a corresponding procfile is created
 which is used for configuring this device. Thus, device names need to
 be unique.
 
 To support adding the same device to multiple threads, which is useful
-with multi queue NICs, a the device naming scheme is extended with "@":
+with multi queue NICs, the device naming scheme is extended with "@":
  device@something
 
 The part after "@" can 

[PATCH 34/41] Documentation: robust-futexes: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/robust-futexes.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
index af6fce2..61c22d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
@@ -126,9 +126,9 @@ vma based method:
 
  - no VM changes are needed - 'struct address_space' is left alone.
 
- - no registration of individual locks is needed: robust mutexes dont
+ - no registration of individual locks is needed: robust mutexes don't
need any extra per-lock syscalls. Robust mutexes thus become a very
-   lightweight primitive - so they dont force the application designer
+   lightweight primitive - so they don't force the application designer
to do a hard choice between performance and robustness - robust
mutexes are just as fast.
 
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ and the remaining bits are for the TID.
 Testing, architecture support
 -
 
-i've tested the new syscalls on x86 and x86_64, and have made sure the
+I've tested the new syscalls on x86 and x86_64, and have made sure the
 parsing of the userspace list is robust [ ;-) ] even if the list is
 deliberately corrupted.
 
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[PATCH 41/41] Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/xillybus.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/xillybus.txt b/Documentation/xillybus.txt
index 81d111b..1660145 100644
--- a/Documentation/xillybus.txt
+++ b/Documentation/xillybus.txt
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ in xillybus_core.c as follows:
   choice is a non-zero value, to match standard UNIX behavior.
 
 * synchronous: A non-zero value means that the pipe is synchronous. See
-  Syncronization above.
+  Synchronization above.
 
 * bufsize: Each DMA buffer's size. Always a power of two.
 
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[PATCH 38/41] Documentation: virtual: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt 
b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt
index e3e314c..13a1261 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/s390_flic.txt
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ struct kvm_s390_io_adapter {
 
   KVM_DEV_FLIC_ADAPTER_MODIFY
 Modifies attributes of an existing I/O adapter interrupt source. Takes
-a kvm_s390_io_adapter_req specifiying the adapter and the operation:
+a kvm_s390_io_adapter_req specifying the adapter and the operation:
 
 struct kvm_s390_io_adapter_req {
__u32 id;
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[PATCH 39/41] Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index d9cb65c..2f383f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work fine as usual.
 
 == Graceful fallback ==
 
-Code walking pagetables but unware about huge pmds can simply call
+Code walking pagetables but unaware about huge pmds can simply call
 split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr) where the pmd is the one returned by
 pmd_offset. It's trivial to make the code transparent hugepage aware
 by just grepping for "pmd_offset" and adding split_huge_pmd where
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ tracking. The alternative is alter ->_mapcount in all 
subpages on each
 map/unmap of the whole compound page.
 
 We set PG_double_map when a PMD of the page got split for the first time,
-but still have PMD mapping. The addtional references go away with last
+but still have PMD mapping. The additional references go away with last
 compound_mapcount.
 
 split_huge_page internally has to distribute the refcounts in the head
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ We safe against physical memory scanners too: the only 
legitimate way
 scanner can get reference to a page is get_page_unless_zero().
 
 All tail pages has zero ->_count until atomic_add(). It prevent scanner
-from geting reference to tail page up to the point. After the atomic_add()
+from getting reference to tail page up to the point. After the atomic_add()
 we don't care about ->_count value.  We already known how many references
 with should uncharge from head page.
 
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[PATCH 29/41] Documentation: lzo: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/lzo.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/lzo.txt b/Documentation/lzo.txt
index ea45dd3..285c54f 100644
--- a/Documentation/lzo.txt
+++ b/Documentation/lzo.txt
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ Description
 
   IMPORTANT NOTE : in the code some length checks are missing because certain
   instructions are called under the assumption that a certain number of bytes
-  follow because it has already been garanteed before parsing the instructions.
+  follow because it has already been guaranteed before parsing the 
instructions.
   They just have to "refill" this credit if they consume extra bytes. This is
-  an implementation design choice independant on the algorithm or encoding.
+  an implementation design choice independent on the algorithm or encoding.
 
 Byte sequences
 
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[PATCH 32/41] Documentation: pps: fix spelling mistake

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/pps/pps.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/pps/pps.txt b/Documentation/pps/pps.txt
index 7cb7264..50022b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/pps/pps.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pps/pps.txt
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ pps_source_info_s as follows:
 };
 
 and then calling the function pps_register_source() in your
-intialization routine as follows:
+initialization routine as follows:
 
 source = pps_register_source(_ktimer_info,
PPS_CAPTUREASSERT | PPS_OFFSETASSERT);
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[PATCH 06/41] Documentation: device-mapper: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-24 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt | 4 ++--
 Documentation/device-mapper/statistics.txt | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt 
b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt
index e5062ad..e3a2063 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache-policies.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Every bio that is mapped by the target is referred to the 
policy.
 The policy can return a simple HIT or MISS or issue a migration.
 
 Currently there's no way for the policy to issue background work,
-e.g. to start writing back dirty blocks that are going to be evicte
+e.g. to start writing back dirty blocks that are going to be evicted
 soon.
 
 Because we map bios, rather than requests it's easy for the policy
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ the entries (each hotspot block covers a larger area than a 
single
 cache block).
 
 All these mean smq uses ~25bytes per cache block.  Still a lot of
-memory, but a substantial improvement nontheless.
+memory, but a substantial improvement nonetheless.
 
 Level balancing:
 MQ places entries in different levels of the multiqueue structures
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/statistics.txt 
b/Documentation/device-mapper/statistics.txt
index 6f5ef94..170ac02 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/statistics.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/statistics.txt
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ statistics on them:
 
   dmsetup message vol 0 @stats_create - /100
 
-Set the auxillary data string to "foo bar baz" (the escape for each
+Set the auxiliary data string to "foo bar baz" (the escape for each
 space must also be escaped, otherwise the shell will consume them):
 
   dmsetup message vol 0 @stats_set_aux 0 foo\\ bar\\ baz
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[PATCH 35/41] Documentation: scsi: fix spelling mistakes

2016-04-25 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch>
---
 Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas | 16 
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas 
b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
index 18b5709..20dcf20 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.megaraid_sas
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Release Date: Sat. Feb 9, 2013 17:00:00 PST 2013 -
 Current Version : 06.506.00.00-rc1
 Old Version : 06.504.01.00-rc1
 1. Add 4k FastPath DIF support.
-2. Dont load DevHandle unless FastPath enabled.
+2. Don't load DevHandle unless FastPath enabled.
 3. Version and Changelog update.
 ---
 Release Date: Mon. Oct 1, 2012 17:00:00 PST 2012 -
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Old Version : 00.00.06.12-rc1
 1. Fix reglockFlags for degraded raid5/6 for MR 9360/9380.
 2. Mask off flags in ioctl path to prevent memory scribble with older
MegaCLI versions.
-3. Remove poll_mode_io module paramater, sysfs node, and associated code.
+3. Remove poll_mode_io module parameter, sysfs node, and associated code.
 ---
 Release Date: Wed. Oct 5, 2011 17:00:00 PST 2010 -
(emaild-id:megaraidli...@lsi.com)
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Old Version : 00.00.04.31-rc1
 1. Add the Online Controller Reset (OCR) to the Driver.
OCR is the new feature for megaraid_sas driver which
will allow the fw to do the chip reset which will not
-   affact the OS behavious.
+   affect the OS behavior.
 
To add the OCR support, driver need to do:
a). reset the controller chips -- Xscale and Gen2 which
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ Old Version : 00.00.04.31-rc1
failed state.  Driver will kill adapter if can't bring back FW after the
this three times reset.
 4. Add the input parameter max_sectors to 1MB support to our GEN2 
controller.
-   customer can use the input paramenter max_sectors to add 1MB support to 
GEN2
+   customer can use the input parameter max_sectors to add 1MB support to 
GEN2
controller.
 
 1 Release Date: Thur.  Oct 29, 2009 09:12:45 PST 2009 -
@@ -584,9 +584,9 @@ ii. Bug fix : Disable controller interrupt before firing 
INIT cmd to FW.
 2 Current Version : 00.00.02.04
 3 Older Version   : 00.00.02.04 
 
-i. Remove superflous instance_lock
+i. Remove superfluous instance_lock
 
-   gets rid of the otherwise superflous instance_lock and avoids an unsave 
+   gets rid of the otherwise superfluous instance_lock and avoids an 
unsafe 
unsynchronized access in the error handler.
 
- Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ i.  Register 16 byte CDB capability with scsi midlayer
 3 Older Version   : 00.00.02.01 
 
 i. New template defined to represent each family of controllers 
(identified by processor used). 
-   The template will have defintions that will be initialised to 
appropritae values for a specific family of controllers. The template 
definition has four function pointers. During driver initialisation the 
function pointers will be set based on the controller family type. This change 
is done to support new controllers that has different processors and thus 
different register set.
+   The template will have definitions that will be initialised to 
appropriate values for a specific family of controllers. The template 
definition has four function pointers. During driver initialisation the 
function pointers will be set based on the controller family type. This change 
is done to support new controllers that has different processors and thus 
different register set.
 
-Sumant Patro <sumant.pa...@lsil.com>
 
@@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ i.  New template defined to represent each family of 
controllers (identified by p
 
 i. Code reorganized to remove code duplication in megasas_build_cmd. 
 
-   "There's a lot of duplicate code megasas_build_cmd.  Move that out of 
the different codepathes and merge the reminder of megasas_build_cmd into 
megasas_queue_command"
+   "There's a lot of duplicate code megasas_build_cmd.  Move that out of 
the different codepaths and merge the reminder of megasas_build_cmd into 
megasas_queue_command"
 
- Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
 
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[trivial PATCH] Documentation/sparse: fix typo

2018-03-13 Thread Eric Engestrom
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engest...@imgtec.com>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst 
b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
index 78aa00a604a009071361..c401c952a340a50fa769 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ __releases - The specified lock is held on function entry, 
but not exit.
 
 If the function enters and exits without the lock held, acquiring and
 releasing the lock inside the function in a balanced way, no
-annotation is needed.  The tree annotations above are for cases where
+annotation is needed.  The three annotations above are for cases where
 sparse would otherwise report a context imbalance.
 
 Getting sparse
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