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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/dvbproperty.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/dvbproperty.xml index 4a5eaeed0b9e..31dc4dfd1d6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/dvbproperty.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/dvbproperty.xml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <section id="FE_GET_SET_PROPERTY"> <title><constant>FE_GET_PROPERTY/FE_SET_PROPERTY</constant></title> -<para>This section describes the DVB version 5 extention of the DVB-API, also +<para>This section describes the DVB version 5 extension of the DVB-API, also called "S2API", as this API were added to provide support for DVB-S2. It was designed to be able to replace the old frontend API. Yet, the DISEQC and the capability ioctls weren't implemented yet via the new way.</para> @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ enum fe_interleaving { <para>Measures the amount of bits received before the inner code block, during the same period as <link linkend="DTV-STAT-PRE-ERROR-BIT-COUNT"><constant>DTV_STAT_PRE_ERROR_BIT_COUNT</constant></link> measurement was taken.</para> <para>It should be noticed that this measurement can be smaller than the total amount of bits on the transport stream, - as the frontend may need to manually restart the measurement, loosing some data between each measurement interval.</para> + as the frontend may need to manually restart the measurement, losing some data between each measurement interval.</para> <para>This measurement is monotonically increased, as the frontend gets more bit count measurements. The frontend may reset it when a channel/transponder is tuned.</para> <para>Possible scales for this metric are:</para> @@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ enum fe_interleaving { <para>Measures the amount of bits received after the inner coding, during the same period as <link linkend="DTV-STAT-POST-ERROR-BIT-COUNT"><constant>DTV_STAT_POST_ERROR_BIT_COUNT</constant></link> measurement was taken.</para> <para>It should be noticed that this measurement can be smaller than the total amount of bits on the transport stream, - as the frontend may need to manually restart the measurement, loosing some data between each measurement interval.</para> + as the frontend may need to manually restart the measurement, losing some data between each measurement interval.</para> <para>This measurement is monotonically increased, as the frontend gets more bit count measurements. The frontend may reset it when a channel/transponder is tuned.</para> <para>Possible scales for this metric are:</para> diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index f336ede58e62..09027a9fece5 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure). But see section 8.2: when moving a task to another cgroup, its pages may be recharged to the new cgroup, if move_charge_at_immigrate has been chosen. -Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEMCG_SWAP is not used. +Exception: If CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP is not used. When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-s3c2410.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-s3c2410.txt index f98d4c5b5cca..296eb4536129 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-s3c2410.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-s3c2410.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Required for all cases except "samsung,s3c2440-hdmiphy-i2c": - pinctrl-names: Should contain only one value - "default". Optional properties: - - samsung,i2c-slave-addr: Slave address in multi-master enviroment. If not + - samsung,i2c-slave-addr: Slave address in multi-master environment. If not specified, default value is 0. - samsung,i2c-max-bus-freq: Desired frequency in Hz of the bus. If not specified, the default value in Hz is 100000. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/tca6507.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/tca6507.txt index 2b6693b972fb..80ff3dfb1f32 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/tca6507.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/tca6507.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -LEDs conected to tca6507 +LEDs connected to tca6507 Required properties: - compatible : should be : "ti,tca6507". diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/metag/meta-intc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/metag/meta-intc.txt index 8c47dcbfabc6..80994adab392 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/metag/meta-intc.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/metag/meta-intc.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Required properties: handle 32 interrupt sources). - interrupt-controller: The presence of this property identifies the node - as an interupt controller. No property value shall be defined. + as an interrupt controller. No property value shall be defined. - #interrupt-cells: Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an interrupt source. The type shall be a <u32> and the value shall be 2. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/atmel,at91-pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/atmel,at91-pinctrl.txt index bc50899e0c81..648d60eb9fd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/atmel,at91-pinctrl.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/atmel,at91-pinctrl.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ * Atmel AT91 Pinmux Controller -The AT91 Pinmux Controler, enables the IC +The AT91 Pinmux Controller, enables the IC to share one PAD to several functional blocks. The sharing is done by multiplexing the PAD input/output signals. For each PAD there are up to 8 muxing options (called periph modes). Since different modules require diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,bcm2835-gpio.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,bcm2835-gpio.txt index 8edc20e1b09e..2569866c692f 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,bcm2835-gpio.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/brcm,bcm2835-gpio.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ controller, and pinmux/control device. Required properties: - compatible: "brcm,bcm2835-gpio" -- reg: Should contain the physical address of the GPIO module's registes. +- reg: Should contain the physical address of the GPIO module's registers. - gpio-controller: Marks the device node as a GPIO controller. - #gpio-cells : Should be two. The first cell is the pin number and the second cell is used to specify optional parameters: diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/qnap-poweroff.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/qnap-poweroff.txt index 9a599d27bd75..0347d8350d94 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/qnap-poweroff.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power_supply/qnap-poweroff.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ QNAP NAS devices have a microcontroller controlling the main power supply. This microcontroller is connected to UART1 of the Kirkwood and -Orion5x SoCs. Sending the charactor 'A', at 19200 baud, tells the +Orion5x SoCs. Sending the character 'A', at 19200 baud, tells the microcontroller to turn the power off. This driver adds a handler to pm_power_off which is called to turn the power off. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max8997-regulator.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max8997-regulator.txt index 9fd69a18b0ba..9e5e51d78868 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max8997-regulator.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/max8997-regulator.txt @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Required properties: safe operating voltage). If either of the 'max8997,pmic-buck[1/2/5]-uses-gpio-dvs' optional - property is specified, then all the eigth voltage values for the + property is specified, then all the eight voltage values for the 'max8997,pmic-buck[1/2/5]-dvs-voltage' should be specified. Optional properties: diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/samsung-usbphy.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/samsung-usbphy.txt index f575302e5173..33fd3543f3f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/samsung-usbphy.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/samsung-usbphy.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The Samsung's usb 2.0 phy transceiver is used for controlling usb 2.0 phy for s3c-hsotg as well as ehci-s5p and ohci-exynos usb controllers across Samsung SOCs. TODO: Adding the PHY binding with controller(s) according to the under -developement generic PHY driver. +development generic PHY driver. Required properties: diff --git a/Documentation/iostats.txt b/Documentation/iostats.txt index c76c21d87e85..65f694f2d1c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/iostats.txt +++ b/Documentation/iostats.txt @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ Field 4 -- # of milliseconds spent reading measured from __make_request() to end_that_request_last()). Field 5 -- # of writes completed This is the total number of writes completed successfully. +Field 6 -- # of writes merged + See the description of field 2. Field 7 -- # of sectors written This is the total number of sectors written successfully. Field 8 -- # of milliseconds spent writing diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b801a332fb6f..8c01a0218a1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1675,7 +1675,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. module.sig_enforce [KNL] When CONFIG_MODULE_SIG is set, this means that modules without (valid) signatures will fail to load. - Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ENFORCE is set, that + Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that is always true, so this option does nothing. mousedev.tap_time= @@ -2024,8 +2024,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. noreplace-smp [X86-32,SMP] Don't replace SMP instructions with UP alternatives - noresidual [PPC] Don't use residual data on PReP machines. - nordrand [X86] Disable the direct use of the RDRAND instruction even if it is supported by the processor. RDRAND is still available to user diff --git a/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt b/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt index c0e1ceed75a4..da49437d5aeb 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt @@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() must be called before the end of the module exit function to make sure there is no caller left using the probe. This, and the fact that preemption is disabled around the probe call, make sure that probe removal and module unload are safe. -See the "Probe example" section below for a sample probe module. The tracepoint mechanism supports inserting multiple instances of the same tracepoint, but a single definition must be made of a given @@ -100,17 +99,3 @@ core kernel image or in modules. If the tracepoint has to be used in kernel modules, an EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL() or EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL() can be used to export the defined tracepoints. - -* Probe / tracepoint example - -See the example provided in samples/tracepoints - -Compile them with your kernel. They are built during 'make' (not -'make modules') when CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACEPOINTS=m. - -Run, as root : -modprobe tracepoint-sample (insmod order is not important) -modprobe tracepoint-probe-sample -cat /proc/tracepoint-sample (returns an expected error) -rmmod tracepoint-sample tracepoint-probe-sample -dmesg diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt index 0d6ec85481cb..eb094039b50d 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt @@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ segmentation, if both guests are amenable. Packets are transmitted by placing them in the transmitq, and buffers for incoming packets are placed in the receiveq. In each -case, the packet itself is preceeded by a header: +case, the packet itself is preceded by a header: struct virtio_net_hdr { @@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac { The device can filter incoming packets by any number of destination MAC addresses.[footnote: -Since there are no guarentees, it can use a hash filter +Since there are no guarantees, it can use a hash filter orsilently switch to allmulti or promiscuous mode if it is given too many addresses. ] This table is set using the class VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC and the @@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ the FLUSH and FLUSH_OUT types are equivalent, the device does not distinguish between them ]). If the device has VIRTIO_BLK_F_BARRIER feature the high bit (VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER) indicates that this request acts as a -barrier and that all preceeding requests must be complete before +barrier and that all preceding requests must be complete before this one, and all following requests must not be started until this is complete. Note that a barrier does not flush caches in the underlying backend device in host, and thus does not serve as |