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| author | Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> | 2023-08-15 00:28:22 +0300 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2023-08-18 20:29:03 +0300 |
| commit | d56b699d76d1b352f7a3d3a0a3e91c79b8612d94 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a368f3e2e17f7a516bf39e055f79d8c79a74885 | |
| parent | ebab9426cd73c45945b44344ca904b343f0ca070 (diff) | |
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Documentation: Fix typos
Fix typos in Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
130 files changed, 194 insertions, 194 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index e32b1d78d50e..d5b0fd89f333 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2624,7 +2624,7 @@ kvm-intel.flexpriority= [KVM,Intel] Control KVM's use of FlexPriority feature - (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disalbe by KVM if + (TPR shadow). Default is 1 (enabled). Disable by KVM if hardware lacks support for it. kvm-intel.nested= diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst index 2d495fa85a0e..37cbc5c0a2ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Root The root of the DAMON sysfs interface is ``<sysfs>/kernel/mm/damon/``, and it has one directory named ``admin``. The directory contains the files for -privileged user space programs' control of DAMON. User space tools or deamons +privileged user space programs' control of DAMON. User space tools or daemons having the root permission could use this directory. kdamonds/ @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ be used for online analysis or tuning of the schemes. The statistics can be retrieved by reading the files under ``stats`` directory (``nr_tried``, ``sz_tried``, ``nr_applied``, ``sz_applied``, and ``qt_exceeds``), respectively. The files are not updated in real time, so you -should ask DAMON sysfs interface to updte the content of the files for the +should ask DAMON sysfs interface to update the content of the files for the stats by writing a special keyword, ``update_schemes_stats`` to the relevant ``kdamonds/<N>/state`` file. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst index 7d7c7c8a545c..2898b2703297 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ for which it has a public key. Otherwise, it will also load modules that are unsigned. Any module for which the kernel has a key, but which proves to have a signature mismatch will not be permitted to load. -Any module that has an unparseable signature will be rejected. +Any module that has an unparsable signature will be rejected. ========================================= diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm/arm.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm/arm.rst index 99d660fdf73f..7b41b89dd9bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/arm/arm.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm/arm.rst @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ ST506 hard drives `*configure` harddrive set to 2). I've got an internal 20MB and a great big external 5.25" FH 64MB drive (who could ever want more :-) ). - I've just got 240K/s off it (a dd with bs=128k); thats about half of what + I've just got 240K/s off it (a dd with bs=128k); that's about half of what RiscOS gets; but it's a heck of a lot better than the 50K/s I was getting last week :-) diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst index a57235616294..17aafc610908 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm/ixp4xx.rst @@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ IXP4xx provides two methods of accessing PCI memory space: 1) A direct mapped window from 0x48000000 to 0x4bffffff (64MB). To access PCI via this space, we simply ioremap() the BAR into the kernel and we can use the standard read[bwl]/write[bwl] - macros. This is the preffered method due to speed but it + macros. This is the preferred method due to speed but it limits the system to just 64MB of PCI memory. This can be - problamatic if using video cards and other memory-heavy devices. + problematic if using video cards and other memory-heavy devices. 2) If > 64MB of memory space is required, the IXP4xx can be configured to use indirect registers to access PCI This allows diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm/sunxi/clocks.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm/sunxi/clocks.rst index 23bd03f3e21f..dfe6d4887210 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/arm/sunxi/clocks.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm/sunxi/clocks.rst @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Frequently asked questions about the sunxi clock system This document contains useful bits of information that people tend to ask about the sunxi clock system, as well as accompanying ASCII art when adequate. -Q: Why is the main 24MHz oscillator gatable? Wouldn't that break the +Q: Why is the main 24MHz oscillator gateable? Wouldn't that break the system? A: The 24MHz oscillator allows gating to save power. Indeed, if gated diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm/swp_emulation.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm/swp_emulation.rst index 6a608a9c3715..bf205e3de36e 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/arm/swp_emulation.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm/swp_emulation.rst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Software emulation of deprecated SWP instruction (CONFIG_SWP_EMULATE) --------------------------------------------------------------------- -ARMv6 architecture deprecates use of the SWP/SWPB instructions, and recommeds +ARMv6 architecture deprecates use of the SWP/SWPB instructions, and recommends moving to the load-locked/store-conditional instructions LDREX and STREX. ARMv7 multiprocessing extensions introduce the ability to disable these diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm/tcm.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm/tcm.rst index 1dc6c39220f9..7ce17a248af9 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/arm/tcm.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm/tcm.rst @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ in <asm/tcm.h>. Using this interface it is possible to: - Have the remaining TCM RAM added to a special allocation pool with gen_pool_create() and gen_pool_add() - and provice tcm_alloc() and tcm_free() for this + and provide tcm_alloc() and tcm_free() for this memory. Such a heap is great for things like saving device state when shutting off device power domains. diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm/vlocks.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm/vlocks.rst index a40a1742110b..737aa8661a21 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/arm/vlocks.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm/vlocks.rst @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ the basic algorithm: optimisation. If there are too many CPUs to read the currently_voting array in - one transaction then multiple transations are still required. The + one transaction then multiple transactions are still required. The implementation uses a simple loop of word-sized loads for this case. The number of transactions is still fewer than would be required if bytes were loaded individually. diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/acpi_object_usage.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/acpi_object_usage.rst index 1da22200fdf8..06d8a87971ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/acpi_object_usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/acpi_object_usage.rst @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ APMT Signature Reserved (signature == "APMT") **Arm Performance Monitoring Table** - This table describes the properties of PMU support implmented by + This table describes the properties of PMU support implemented by components in the system. BERT Section 18.3 (signature == "BERT") diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/arm-acpi.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/arm-acpi.rst index 94274a8d84cf..a46c34fa9604 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/arm-acpi.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/arm-acpi.rst @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ to replace the kernel. When a Linux driver or subsystem is first implemented using ACPI, it by definition ends up requiring a specific version of the ACPI specification --- it's baseline. ACPI firmware must continue to work, even though it may +-- its baseline. ACPI firmware must continue to work, even though it may not be optimal, with the earliest kernel version that first provides support for that baseline version of ACPI. There may be a need for additional drivers, but adding new functionality (e.g., CPU power management) should not break diff --git a/Documentation/arch/openrisc/openrisc_port.rst b/Documentation/arch/openrisc/openrisc_port.rst index 657ac4af7be6..1565b9546e38 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/openrisc/openrisc_port.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/openrisc/openrisc_port.rst @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ History a much improved version with changes all around. 10-04-2004 Matjaz Breskvar (phoenix@bsemi.com) - alot of bugfixes all over. + a lot of bugfixes all over. ethernet support, functional http and telnet servers. running many standard linux apps. @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ History port to 2.6.x 30-11-2004 Matjaz Breskvar (phoenix@bsemi.com) - lots of bugfixes and enhancments. + lots of bugfixes and enhancements. added opencores framebuffer driver. 09-10-2010 Jonas Bonn (jonas@southpole.se) diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst index 33520ecdb37a..32d6099ba994 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/boot.rst @@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ The kernel command line should not be located below the real-mode code, nor should it be located in high memory. -Sample Boot Configuartion +Sample Boot Configuration ========================= As a sample configuration, assume the following layout of the real diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/buslock.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/buslock.rst index 31ec0ef78086..4c5a4822eeb7 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/buslock.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/buslock.rst @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ mechanisms to detect split locks and bus locks. -------------------------------------- Beginning with the Tremont Atom CPU split lock operations may raise an -Alignment Check (#AC) exception when a split lock operation is attemped. +Alignment Check (#AC) exception when a split lock operation is attempted. #DB exception for bus lock detection ------------------------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst index 5d4330be200f..e73fdff62c0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/mds.rst @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ needed for exploiting MDS requires: data The existence of such a construct in the kernel cannot be excluded with -100% certainty, but the complexity involved makes it extremly unlikely. +100% certainty, but the complexity involved makes it extremely unlikely. There is one exception, which is untrusted BPF. The functionality of untrusted BPF is limited, but it needs to be thoroughly investigated diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/sgx.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/sgx.rst index 2bcbffacbed5..d90796adc2ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/sgx.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/sgx.rst @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ SGX will likely become unusable because the memory available to SGX is limited. However, while this may be fatal to SGX, the rest of the kernel is unlikely to be impacted and should continue to work. -As a result, when this happpens, user should stop running any new +As a result, when this happens, user should stop running any new SGX workloads, (or just any new workloads), and migrate all valuable workloads. Although a machine reboot can recover all EPC memory, the bug should be reported to Linux developers. diff --git a/Documentation/arch/xtensa/atomctl.rst b/Documentation/arch/xtensa/atomctl.rst index 1ecbd0ba9a2e..75d174169430 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/xtensa/atomctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/xtensa/atomctl.rst @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ doing a Cached (WB) transaction and use the Memory RCW for un-cached operations. For systems without an coherent cache controller, non-MX, we always -use the memory controllers RCW, thought non-MX controlers likely +use the memory controllers RCW, though non-MX controllers likely support the Internal Operation. CUSTOMER-WARNING: diff --git a/Documentation/block/data-integrity.rst b/Documentation/block/data-integrity.rst index 07a97aa26668..6a760c0eb192 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/data-integrity.rst +++ b/Documentation/block/data-integrity.rst @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ will require extra work due to the application tag. sector must be set, and the bio should have all data pages added. It is up to the caller to ensure that the bio does not change while I/O is in progress. - Complete bio with error if prepare failed for some reson. + Complete bio with error if prepare failed for some reason. 5.3 Passing Existing Integrity Metadata diff --git a/Documentation/block/ublk.rst b/Documentation/block/ublk.rst index 1713b2890abb..ff74b3ec4a98 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/ublk.rst +++ b/Documentation/block/ublk.rst @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ The's IO is assigned by a unique tag, which is 1:1 mapping with IO request of ``/dev/ublkb*``. UAPI structure of ``ublksrv_io_desc`` is defined for describing each IO from -the driver. A fixed mmaped area (array) on ``/dev/ublkc*`` is provided for +the driver. A fixed mmapped area (array) on ``/dev/ublkc*`` is provided for exporting IO info to the server; such as IO offset, length, OP/flags and buffer address. Each ``ublksrv_io_desc`` instance can be indexed via queue id and IO tag directly. diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/cpumasks.rst b/Documentation/bpf/cpumasks.rst index 3139c7c02e79..a22b6ad105fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/cpumasks.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/cpumasks.rst @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ can be used to query the contents of cpumasks. ---- Some example usages of these querying kfuncs were shown above. We will not -replicate those exmaples here. Note, however, that all of the aforementioned +replicate those examples here. Note, however, that all of the aforementioned kfuncs are tested in `tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/cpumask_success.c`_, so please take a look there if you're looking for more examples of how they can be used. diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst b/Documentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst index 61274622b71d..06288cc719b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/graph_ds_impl.rst @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Introduction The BPF map API has historically been the main way to expose data structures of various types for use within BPF programs. Some data structures fit naturally -with the map API (HASH, ARRAY), others less so. Consequentially, programs +with the map API (HASH, ARRAY), others less so. Consequently, programs interacting with the latter group of data structures can be hard to parse for kernel programmers without previous BPF experience. diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst index b64809514b0f..70380a2a01b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ proc entries Error Injectable Functions -------------------------- -This part is for the kenrel developers considering to add a function to +This part is for the kernel developers considering to add a function to ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() macro. Requirements for the Error Injectable Functions diff --git a/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.rst b/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.rst index 7300cff255a3..7fc1933b06d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.rst +++ b/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.rst @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ works: - userspace app like Xfbdev mmaps framebuffer - deferred IO and driver sets up fault and page_mkwrite handlers -- userspace app tries to write to mmaped vaddress +- userspace app tries to write to mmapped vaddress - we get pagefault and reach fault handler - fault handler finds and returns physical page - we get page_mkwrite where we add this page to a list diff --git a/Documentation/fb/sm712fb.rst b/Documentation/fb/sm712fb.rst index 994dad3b0238..8e000f80b5bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/sm712fb.rst +++ b/Documentation/fb/sm712fb.rst @@ -31,5 +31,5 @@ Missing Features ================ (alias TODO list) - * 2D acceleratrion + * 2D acceleration * dual-head support diff --git a/Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst b/Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst index 42466ff49c58..88d5a52b13d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst +++ b/Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Module insertion the device will be /dev/fb0. You can check this by doing a cat /proc/fb. You can find a copy of con2fb in tools/ directory. if you don't have another fb device, this step is superfluous, - as the console subsystem automagicaly binds ttys to the fb. + as the console subsystem automagically binds ttys to the fb. #. switch to the virtual console you just mapped. "tadaaa" ... Module removal diff --git a/Documentation/features/core/thread-info-in-task/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/core/thread-info-in-task/arch-support.txt index 9c5d39eebef2..97c65ed2ac23 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/core/thread-info-in-task/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/core/thread-info-in-task/arch-support.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # # Feature name: thread-info-in-task # Kconfig: THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK -# description: arch makes use of the core kernel facility to embedd thread_info in task_struct +# description: arch makes use of the core kernel facility to embed thread_info in task_struct # ----------------------- | arch |status| diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst index 1b5f0cc3e4ca..1e0e0bb6fdf9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Options cache=mode specifies a caching policy. By default, no caches are used. The mode can be specified as a bitmask or by using one of the - prexisting common 'shortcuts'. + preexisting common 'shortcuts'. The bitmask is described below: (unspecified bits are reserved) ========== ==================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.rst index 79f9740d76ff..a22f603b2938 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/befs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/befs.rst @@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ iocharset=xxx Use xxx as the name of the NLS translation table. debug The driver will output debugging information to the syslog. ============= =========================================================== -How to Get Lastest Version -========================== +How to Get Latest Version +========================= The latest version is currently available at: <http://befs-driver.sourceforge.net/> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst index fc7abf712315..e04a27bdbe19 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for example). The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and -may be overridden. This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process +may be overridden. This is not seen externally, and is used when a process acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a file. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.rst index 1d18e9def183..665b27f1556e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.rst @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ A filesystem would typically have a volume cookie for each superblock. The filesystem then acquires a cookie for each file within that volume using an object key. Object keys are binary blobs and only need to be unique within -their parent volume. The cache backend is reponsible for rendering the binary +their parent volume. The cache backend is responsible for rendering the binary blob into something it can use and may employ hash tables, trees or whatever to improve its ability to find an object. This is transparent to the network filesystem. @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ actually required and it can use the fscache I/O API directly. Volume Registration =================== -The first step for a network filsystem is to acquire a volume cookie for the +The first step for a network filesystem is to acquire a volume cookie for the volume it wants to access:: struct fscache_volume * @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ is provided. If the coherency data doesn't match, the entire cache volume will be invalidated. This function can return errors such as EBUSY if the volume key is already in -use by an acquired volume or ENOMEM if an allocation failure occured. It may +use by an acquired volume or ENOMEM if an allocation failure occurred. It may also return a NULL volume cookie if fscache is not enabled. It is safe to pass a NULL cookie to any function that takes a volume cookie. This will cause that function to do nothing. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs.rst index 8c9342ed6d25..ac22138de6a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs.rst @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ to be used. If binary attribute is readable and the config_item provides a ct_item_ops->read_bin_attribute() method, that method will be called whenever userspace asks for a read(2) on the attribute. The converse -will happen for write(2). The reads/writes are bufferred so only a +will happen for write(2). The reads/writes are buffered so only a single read/write will occur; the attributes' need not concern itself with it. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst index c04609d8ee24..719e90f1988e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.rst @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ The DAX code does not work correctly on architectures which have virtually mapped caches such as ARM, MIPS and SPARC. Calling :c:func:`get_user_pages()` on a range of user memory that has been -mmaped from a `DAX` file will fail when there are no 'struct page' to describe +mmapped from a `DAX` file will fail when there are no 'struct page' to describe those pages. This problem has been addressed in some device drivers by adding optional struct page support for pages under the control of the driver (see `CONFIG_NVDIMM_PFN` in ``drivers/nvdimm`` for an example of diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.rst index a03248ddfb4c..b6324ab1960d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.rst @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ The Devpts Filesystem ===================== Each mount of the devpts filesystem is now distinct such that ptys -and their indicies allocated in one mount are independent from ptys -and their indicies in all other mounts. +and their indices allocated in one mount are independent from ptys +and their indices in all other mounts. All mounts of the devpts filesystem now create a ``/dev/pts/ptmx`` node with permissions ``0000``. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst index 0152888cac29..a1eb4a11a1d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/super.rst @@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ The ``s_default_mount_opts`` field is any combination of the following: * - 0x0010 - Do not support 32-bit UIDs. (EXT4_DEFM_UID16) * - 0x0020 - - All data and metadata are commited to the journal. + - All data and metadata are committed to the journal. (EXT4_DEFM_JMODE_DATA) * - 0x0040 - All data are flushed to the disk before metadata are committed to the diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst index 9359978a5af2..d32c6209685d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ errors=%s Specify f2fs behavior on critical errors. This supports modes: ====================== =============== =============== ======== mode continue remount-ro panic ====================== =============== =============== ======== - access ops normal noraml N/A + access ops normal normal N/A syscall errors -EIO -EROFS N/A mount option rw ro N/A pending dir write keep keep N/A @@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ Note: please refer to the manpage of dump.f2fs(8) to get full option list. sload.f2fs ---------- -The sload.f2fs gives a way to insert files and directories in the exisiting disk +The sload.f2fs gives a way to insert files and directories in the existing disk image. This tool is useful when building f2fs images given compiled files. Note: please refer to the manpage of sload.f2fs(8) to get full option list. @@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ Allocating disk space as a method of optimally implementing that function. However, once F2FS receives ioctl(fd, F2FS_IOC_SET_PIN_FILE) in prior to -fallocate(fd, DEFAULT_MODE), it allocates on-disk block addressess having +fallocate(fd, DEFAULT_MODE), it allocates on-disk block addresses having zero or random data, which is useful to the below scenario where: 1. create(fd) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst index d14f230f0b12..bec25c8b3e4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock grant for which we ignore remote demote requests. This is in order to prevent a situation where locks are being bounced around the cluster from node to node with none of the nodes making any progress. This -tends to show up most with shared mmaped files which are being written +tends to show up most with shared mmapped files which are being written to by multiple nodes. By delaying the demotion in response to a remote callback, that gives the userspace program time to make some progress before the pages are unmapped. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst index ad6d21640576..9700fdff411d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ and write down the mappings it will generate:: From a mathematical viewpoint ``U`` and ``K`` are well-ordered sets and an idmapping is an order isomorphism from ``U`` into ``K``. So ``U`` and ``K`` are order isomorphic. In fact, ``U`` and ``K`` are always well-ordered subsets of -the set of all possible ids useable on a given system. +the set of all possible ids usable on a given system. Looking at this mathematically briefly will help us highlight some properties that make it easier to understand how we can translate between idmappings. For @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ example, we know that the inverse idmapping is an order isomorphism as well:: k10002 -> u24 Given that we are dealing with order isomorphisms plus the fact that we're -dealing with subsets we can embedd idmappings into each other, i.e. we can +dealing with subsets we can embed idmappings into each other, i.e. we can sensibly translate between different idmappings. For example, assume we've been given the three idmappings:: @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ and id ``k11000`` which has been generated by the first idmapping by mapping Because we're dealing with order isomorphic subsets it is meaningful to ask what id ``k11000`` corresponds to in the second or third idmapping. The -straightfoward algorithm to use is to apply the inverse of the first idmapping, +straightforward algorithm to use is to apply the inverse of the first idmapping, mapping ``k11000`` up to ``u1000``. Afterwards, we can map ``u1000`` down using either the second idmapping mapping or third idmapping mapping. The second idmapping would map ``u1000`` down to ``21000``. The third idmapping would map @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ So with the second step the kernel guarantees that a valid userspace id can be written to disk. If it can't the kernel will refuse the creation request to not even remotely risk filesystem corruption. -The astute reader will have realized that this is simply a varation of the +The astute reader will have realized that this is simply a variation of the crossmapping algorithm we mentioned above in a previous section. First, the kernel maps the caller's userspace id down into a kernel id according to the caller's idmapping and then maps that kernel id up according to the @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ the kernel id that was created in the caller's idmapping. This has mainly two consequences. First, that we can't allow a caller to ultimately write to disk with another -userspace id. We could only do this if we were to mount the whole fileystem +userspace id. We could only do this if we were to mount the whole filesystem with the caller's or another idmapping. But that solution is limited to a few filesystems and not very flexible. But this is a use-case that is pretty important in containerized workloads. @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ on their work machine. In both cases changing ownership recursively has grave implications. The most obvious one is that ownership is changed globally and permanently. In the home -directory case this change in ownership would even need to happen everytime the +directory case this change in ownership would even need to happen every time the user switches from their home to their work machine. For really large sets of files this becomes increasingly costly. @@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ use the ``vfsuid_into_kuid()`` and ``vfsgid_into_kgid()`` helpers. To illustrate why this helper currently exists, consider what happens when we change ownership of an inode from an idmapped mount. After we generated a ``vfsuid_t`` or ``vfsgid_t`` based on the mount idmapping we later commit to -this ``vfsuid_t`` or ``vfsgid_t`` to become the new filesytem wide ownership. +this ``vfsuid_t`` or ``vfsgid_t`` to become the new filesystem wide ownership. Thus, we are turning the ``vfsuid_t`` or ``vfsgid_t`` into a global ``kuid_t`` or ``kgid_t``. And this can be done by using ``vfsuid_into_kuid()`` and ``vfsgid_into_kgid()``. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst index 73a4176144b3..48b95d04f72d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/netfs_library.rst @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ conflicting writes or track dirty data and needs to put the acquired folio if an error occurs after calling the helper. The helpers manage the read request, calling back into the network filesystem -through the suppplied table of operations. Waits will be performed as +through the supplied table of operations. Waits will be performed as necessary before returning for helpers that are meant to be synchronous. If an error occurs, the ->free_request() will be called to clean up the diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/client-identifier.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/client-identifier.rst index a94c7a9748d7..4804441155f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/client-identifier.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/client-identifier.rst @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ deployments, this construction is usually adequate. Often, however, the node name by itself is not adequately unique, and can change unexpectedly. Problematic situations include: - - NFS-root (diskless) clients, where the local DCHP server (or + - NFS-root (diskless) clients, where the local DHCP server (or equivalent) does not provide a unique host name. - "Containers" within a single Linux host. If each container has diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.rst index bb164eea969b..339efd75016a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.rst @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Creating a Cache include taking references to shared objects. void update(struct cache_head \*orig, struct cache_head \*new) - Set the 'content' fileds in 'new' from 'orig'. + Set the 'content' fields in 'new' from 'orig'. int cache_show(struct seq_file \*m, struct cache_detail \*cd, struct cache_head \*h) Optional. Used to provide a /proc file that lists the diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.rst index ccaea9e7cea2..5c1a1c58fc27 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-server-gss.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ The Linux kernel, at the moment, supports only the KRB5 mechanism, and depends on GSSAPI extensions that are KRB5 specific. GSSAPI is a complex library, and implementing it completely in kernel is -unwarranted. However GSSAPI operations are fundementally separable in 2 +unwarranted. However GSSAPI operations are fundamentally separable in 2 parts: - initial context establishment diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.rst index 6c49f04e9e0a..e3a5c8977f2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.rst @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ file structures (nilfs_finfo), and per block structures (nilfs_binfo):: The logs include regular files, directory files, symbolic link files -and several meta data files. The mata data files are the files used +and several meta data files. The meta data files are the files used to maintain file system meta data. The current version of NILFS2 uses the following meta data files:: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs3.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs3.rst index f0cf05cad2ba..2b86a9b3a6de 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs3.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs3.rst @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ this table marked with no it means default is without **no**. Todo list ========= - Full journaling support over JBD. Currently journal replaying is supported - which is not necessarily as effectice as JBD would be. + which is not necessarily as effective as JBD would be. References ========== diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.rst index 463e37694250..931159e61796 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/orangefs.rst @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ then contains: of kcalloced memory. This memory is used as an array of pointers to each of the pages in the IO buffer through a call to get_user_pages. * desc_array - a pointer to ``desc_count * (sizeof(struct orangefs_bufmap_desc))`` - bytes of kcalloced memory. This memory is further intialized: + bytes of kcalloced memory. This memory is further initialized: user_desc is the kernel's copy of the IO buffer's ORANGEFS_dev_map_desc structure. user_desc->ptr points to the IO buffer. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index eb7d2c88ddec..cc4761599ac9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ handle it in two different ways: 1. return EXDEV error: this error is returned by rename(2) when trying to move a file or directory across filesystem boundaries. Hence - applications are usually prepared to hande this error (mv(1) for example + applications are usually prepared to handle this error (mv(1) for example recursively copies the directory tree). This is the default behavior. 2. If the "redirect_dir" feature is enabled, then the directory will be @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ Mount options: Redirects are not created and not followed. - "redirect_dir=off": If "redirect_always_follow" is enabled in the kernel/module config, - this "off" traslates to "follow", otherwise it translates to "nofollow". + this "off" translates to "follow", otherwise it translates to "nofollow". When the NFS export feature is enabled, every copied up directory is indexed by the file handle of the lower inode and a file handle of the diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index d2d684ae7798..ffafd93001df 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ settles down a bit. **mandatory** s_export_op is now required for exporting a filesystem. -isofs, ext2, ext3, resierfs, fat +isofs, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, fat can be used as examples of very different filesystems. --- @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ has been taken to VFS and filesystems need to provide a non-NULL **mandatory** If you implement your own ->llseek() you must handle SEEK_HOLE and -SEEK_DATA. You can hanle this by returning -EINVAL, but it would be nicer to +SEEK_DATA. You can handle this by returning -EINVAL, but it would be nicer to support it in some way. The generic handler assumes that the entire file is data and there is a virtual hole at the end of the file. So if the provided offset is less than i_size and SEEK_DATA is specified, return the same offset. @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and ->create() doesn't take ``struct nameidata *``; unlike the previous two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument. Note that -local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the +local filesystems can ignore this argument - they are guaranteed that the object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care... --- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 7897a7dafcbc..d6109c78a228 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -507,12 +507,12 @@ pressure if the memory is clean. Please note that the printed value might be lower than the real value due to optimizations used in the current implementation. If this is not desirable please file a bug report. -"AnonHugePages" shows the ammount of memory backed by transparent hugepage. +"AnonHugePages" shows the amount of memory backed by transparent hugepage. -"ShmemPmdMapped" shows the ammount of shared (shmem/tmpfs) memory backed by +"ShmemPmdMapped" shows the amount of shared (shmem/tmpfs) memory backed by huge pages. -"Shared_Hugetlb" and "Private_Hugetlb" show the ammounts of memory backed by +"Shared_Hugetlb" and "Private_Hugetlb" show the amounts 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. @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ encoded manner. The codes are the following: mm mixed map area hg huge page advise flag nh no huge page advise flag - mg mergable advise flag + mg mergeable advise flag bt arm64 BTI guarded page mt arm64 MTE allocation tags are enabled um userfaultfd missing tracking @@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ Writeback AnonPages Non-file backed pages mapped into userspace page tables Mapped - files which have been mmaped, such as libraries + files which have been mmapped, such as libraries Shmem Total memory used by shared memory (shmem) and tmpfs KReclaimable @@ -2229,7 +2229,7 @@ are not related to tasks. Chapter 5: Filesystem behavior ============================== -Originally, before the advent of pid namepsace, procfs was a global file +Originally, before the advent of pid namespace, procfs was a global file system. It means that there was only one procfs instance in the system. When pid namespace was added, a separate procfs instance was mounted in diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.rst index 523b798f04e7..560f3d470422 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.rst @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ inode. Character and block special devices do not exist in QNX as those files are handled by the QNX kernel/drivers and created in /dev independent of the -underlaying filesystem. +underlying filesystem. Long filenames -------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst index a6726082a7c2..1e1713d00010 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.rst @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ called SEQ_START_TOKEN; it can be used if you wish to instruct your show() function (described below) to print a header at the top of the output. SEQ_START_TOKEN should only be used if the offset is zero, however. SEQ_START_TOKEN has no special meaning to the core seq_file -code. It is provided as a convenience for a start() funciton to +code. It is provided as a convenience for a start() function to communicate with the next() and show() functions. The next function to implement is called, amazingly, next(); its job is to @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ between the calls to start() and stop(), so holding a lock during that time is a reasonable thing to do. The seq_file code will also avoid taking any other locks while the iterator is active. -The iterater value returned by start() or next() is guaranteed to be +The iterator value returned by start() or next() is guaranteed to be passed to a subsequent next() or stop() call. This allows resources such as locks that were taken to be reliably released. There is *no* guarantee that the iterator will be passed to show(), though in practice diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst index 5210aed2afbc..3d85ee88719a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ marked as dirty are written to the flash to update the persisted index. Journal ~~~~~~~ -To avoid wearing out the flash, the index is only persisted (*commited*) when +To avoid wearing out the flash, the index is only persisted (*committed*) when certain conditions are met (eg. ``fsync(2)``). The journal is used to record any changes (in form of inode nodes, data nodes etc.) between commits of the index. During mount, the journal is read from the flash and replayed diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst index 760a4d83fdf9..b289c4449cd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.rst @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ VFAT MOUNT OPTIONS Normally utime(2) checks current process is owner of the file, or it has CAP_FOWNER capability. But FAT filesystem doesn't have uid/gid on disk, so normal - check is too unflexible. With this option you can + check is too inflexible. With this option you can relax it. **codepage=###** diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst index a751f6d01eb2..0c6b86d3e8f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ is an error during writeback, they expect that error to be reported when a file sync request is made. After an error has been reported on one request, subsequent requests on the same file descriptor should return 0, unless further writeback errors have occurred since the previous file -syncronization. +synchronization. Ideally, the kernel would report errors only on file descriptions on which writes were done that subsequently failed to be written back. The diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst index 791ab264b77e..1625d1131093 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-online-fsck-design.rst @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ The seven phases are as follows: Before starting repairs, the summary counters are checked and any necessary repairs are performed so that subsequent repairs will not fail the resource reservation step due to wildly incorrect summary counters. - Unsuccesful repairs are requeued as long as forward progress on repairs is + Unsuccessful repairs are requeued as long as forward progress on repairs is made somewhere in the filesystem. Free space in the filesystem is trimmed at the end of phase 4 if the filesystem is clean. @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ ondisk structure. Inspiration for quota and file link count repair strategies were drawn from sections 2.12 ("Online Index Operations") through 2.14 ("Incremental View -Maintenace") of G. Graefe, `"Concurrent Queries and Updates in Summary Views +Maintenance") of G. Graefe, `"Concurrent Queries and Updates in Summary Views and Their Indexes" <http://www.odbms.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Increment-locks.pdf>`_, 2011. @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ functionality. The cron job does not have this protection. - **Fuzz Kiddiez**: There are many people now who seem to think that running - automated fuzz testing of ondisk artifacts to find mischevious behavior and + automated fuzz testing of ondisk artifacts to find mischievous behavior and spraying exploit code onto the public mailing list for instant zero-day disclosure is somehow of some social benefit. In the view of this author, the benefit is realized only when the fuzz @@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ If the leaf information exceeds a single filesystem block, a dabtree (also rooted at block 0) is created to map hashes of the attribute names to leaf blocks in the attr fork. -Checking an extended attribute structure is not so straightfoward due to the +Checking an extended attribute structure is not so straightforward due to the lack of separation between attr blocks and index blocks. Scrub must read each block mapped by the attr fork and ignore the non-leaf blocks: @@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@ If the free space has been separated and the second partition grows again beyond one block, then a dabtree is used to map hashes of dirent names to directory data blocks. -Checking a directory is pretty straightfoward: +Checking a directory is pretty straightforward: 1. Walk the dabtree in the second partition (if present) to ensure that there are no irregularities in the blocks or dabtree mappings that do not point to @@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ Only online fsck has this requirement of total consistency of AG metadata, and should be relatively rare as compared to filesystem change operations. Online fsck coordinates with transaction chains as follows: -* For each AG, maintain a count of intent items targetting that AG. +* For each AG, maintain a count of intent items targeting that AG. The count should be bumped whenever a new item is added to the chain. The count should be dropped when the filesystem has locked the AG header buffers and finished the work. @@ -2102,7 +2102,7 @@ quicksort and a heapsort subalgorithm in the spirit of kernel. To sort records in a reasonably short amount of time, ``xfarray`` takes advantage of the binary subpartitioning offered by quicksort, but it also uses -heapsort to hedge aginst performance collapse if the chosen quicksort pivots +heapsort to hedge against performance collapse if the chosen quicksort pivots are poor. Both algorithms are (in general) O(n * lg(n)), but there is a wide performance gulf between the two implementations. @@ -2566,8 +2566,8 @@ old metadata blocks: The transaction rolling in steps 2c and 3 represent a weakness in the repair algorithm, because a log flush and a crash before the end of the reap step can result in space leaking. -Online repair functions minimize the chances of this occuring by using very -large transactions, which each can accomodate many thousands of block freeing +Online repair functions minimize the chances of this occurring by using very +large transactions, which each can accommodate many thousands of block freeing instructions. Repair moves on to reaping the old blocks, which will be presented in a subsequent :ref:`section<reaping>` after a few case studies of bulk loading. @@ -5090,7 +5090,7 @@ This scan after validation of all filesystem metadata (except for the summary counters) as phase 6. The scan starts by calling ``FS_IOC_GETFSMAP`` to scan the filesystem space map to find areas that are allocated to file data fork extents. -Gaps betweeen data fork extents that are smaller than 64k are treated as if +Gaps between data fork extents that are smaller than 64k are treated as if they were data fork extents to reduce the command setup overhead. When the space map scan accumulates a region larger than 32MB, a media verification request is sent to the disk as a directio read of the raw block diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/zonefs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/zonefs.rst index 394b9f15dce0..c22124c2213d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/zonefs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/zonefs.rst @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ The attributes defined are as follows. sequential zone files. Failure to do so can result in write errors. * **max_active_seq_files**: This attribute reports the maximum number of sequential zone files that are in an active state, that is, sequential zone - files that are partially writen (not empty nor full) or that have a zone that + files that are partially written (not empty nor full) or that have a zone that is explicitly open (which happens only if the *explicit-open* mount option is used). This number is always equal to the maximum number of active zones that the device supports. A value of 0 means that the mounted device has no limit diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst index 784850adfcb6..868a0a40bb76 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst +++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ quirk, a bug, or a bug-fix. However this was discovered to be abused by other BIOS vendors to change completely unrelated code on completely unrelated systems. This prompted -an evaluation of all of it's uses. This uncovered that they aren't needed +an evaluation of all of its uses. This uncovered that they aren't needed for any of the original reasons. As such, the kernel will not respond to any custom Linux-* strings by default. diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/mpo-overview.rst b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/mpo-overview.rst index 0499aa92d08d..59a4f54a3ac7 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/mpo-overview.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/amdgpu/display/mpo-overview.rst @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ Multiple Display MPO AMDGPU supports display MPO when using multiple displays; however, this feature behavior heavily relies on the compositor implementation. Keep in mind that -usespace can define different policies. For example, some OSes can use MPO to +userspace can define different policies. For example, some OSes can use MPO to protect the plane that handles the video playback; notice that we don't have many limitations for a single display. Nonetheless, this manipulation can have many more restrictions for a multi-display scenario. The below example shows a diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst index b8ab05e42dbb..b748b8ae70b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms-helpers.rst @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ SCDC Helper Functions Reference HDMI Infoframes Helper Reference ================================ -Strictly speaking this is not a DRM helper library but generally useable +Strictly speaking this is not a DRM helper library but generally usable by any driver interfacing with HDMI outputs like v4l or alsa drivers. But it nicely fits into the overall topic of mode setting helper libraries and hence is also included here. diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst index c92d425cb2dd..a0c83fc48126 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-kms.rst @@ -66,11 +66,11 @@ Composition Properties`_ and related chapters. For the output routing the first step is encoders (represented by :c:type:`struct drm_encoder <drm_encoder>`, see `Encoder Abstraction`_). Those are really just internal artifacts of the helper libraries used to implement KMS -drivers. Besides that they make it unecessarily more complicated for userspace +drivers. Besides that they make it unnecessarily more complicated for userspace to figure out which connections between a CRTC and a connector are possible, and what kind of cloning is supported, they serve no purpose in the userspace API. Unfortunately encoders have been exposed to userspace, hence can't remove them -at this point. Futhermore the exposed restrictions are often wrongly set by +at this point. Furthermore the exposed restrictions are often wrongly set by drivers, and in many cases not powerful enough to express the real restrictions. A CRTC can be connected to multiple encoders, and for an active CRTC there must be at least one encoder. @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ Taken all together there's two consequences for the atomic design: drm_crtc_state <drm_crtc_state>` for CRTCs and :c:type:`struct drm_connector_state <drm_connector_state>` for connectors. These are the only objects with userspace-visible and settable state. For internal state drivers - can subclass these structures through embeddeding, or add entirely new state + can subclass these structures through embedding, or add entirely new state structures for their globally shared hardware functions, see :c:type:`struct drm_private_state<drm_private_state>`. diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst index fe35a291ff3e..044e6b2ed1be 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-usage-stats.rst @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DRM drivers can choose to export partly standardised text output via the `fops->show_fdinfo()` as part of the driver specific file operations registered in the `struct drm_driver` object registered with the DRM core. -One purpose of this output is to enable writing as generic as practicaly +One purpose of this output is to enable writing as generic as practically feasible `top(1)` like userspace monitoring tools. Given the differences between various DRM drivers the specification of the @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ drm-engine-<keystr> tag and shall contain the maximum frequency for the given engine. Taken together with drm-cycles-<keystr>, this can be used to calculate percentage utilization of the engine, whereas drm-engine-<keystr> only reflects time active without considering what frequency the engine is operating as a -percentage of it's maximum frequency. +percentage of its maximum frequency. Memory ^^^^^^ diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst b/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst index 60ea21734902..378e825754d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst @@ -304,10 +304,10 @@ reads of following commands. Actions issued between different contexts and the only way to synchronize across contexts (even from the same file descriptor) is through the use of fences. At least as far back as Gen4, also have that a context carries with it a GPU HW context; -the HW context is essentially (most of atleast) the state of a GPU. +the HW context is essentially (most of at least) the state of a GPU. In addition to the ordering guarantees, the kernel will restore GPU state via HW context when commands are issued to a context, this saves -user space the need to restore (most of atleast) the GPU state at the +user space the need to restore (most of at least) the GPU state at the start of each batchbuffer. The non-deprecated ioctls to submit batchbuffer work can pass that ID (in the lower bits of drm_i915_gem_execbuffer2::rsvd1) to identify what context to use with the command. diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/kms-properties.csv b/Documentation/gpu/kms-properties.csv index 07ed22ea3bd6..0f9590834829 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/kms-properties.csv +++ b/Documentation/gpu/kms-properties.csv @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Owner Module/Drivers,Group,Property Name,Type,Property Values,Object attached,De ,Virtual GPU,“suggested X”,RANGE,"Min=0, Max=0xffffffff",Connector,property to suggest an X offset for a connector ,,“suggested Y”,RANGE,"Min=0, Max=0xffffffff",Connector,property to suggest an Y offset for a connector ,Optional,"""aspect ratio""",ENUM,"{ ""None"", ""4:3"", ""16:9"" }",Connector,TDB -i915,Generic,"""Broadcast RGB""",ENUM,"{ ""Automatic"", ""Full"", ""Limited 16:235"" }",Connector,"When this property is set to Limited 16:235 and CTM is set, the hardware will be programmed with the result of the multiplication of CTM by the limited range matrix to ensure the pixels normaly in the range 0..1.0 are remapped to the range 16/255..235/255." +i915,Generic,"""Broadcast RGB""",ENUM,"{ ""Automatic"", ""Full"", ""Limited 16:235"" }",Connector,"When this property is set to Limited 16:235 and CTM is set, the hardware will be programmed with the result of the multiplication of CTM by the limited range matrix to ensure the pixels normally in the range 0..1.0 are remapped to the range 16/255..235/255." ,,“audio”,ENUM,"{ ""force-dvi"", ""off"", ""auto"", ""on"" }",Connector,TBD ,SDVO-TV,“mode”,ENUM,"{ ""NTSC_M"", ""NTSC_J"", ""NTSC_443"", ""PAL_B"" } etc.",Connector,TBD ,,"""left_margin""",RANGE,"Min=0, Max= SDVO dependent",Connector,TBD diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/komeda-kms.rst b/Documentation/gpu/komeda-kms.rst index eb693c857e2d..633a016563ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/komeda-kms.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/komeda-kms.rst @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ of course we’d better share as much as possible between different products. To achieve this, split the komeda device into two layers: CORE and CHIP. - CORE: for common features and capabilities handling. -- CHIP: for register programing and HW specific feature (limitation) handling. +- CHIP: for register programming and HW specific feature (limitation) handling. CORE can access CHIP by three chip function structures: @@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ Build komeda to be a Linux module driver Now we have two level devices: - komeda_dev: describes the real display hardware. -- komeda_kms_dev: attachs or connects komeda_dev to DRM-KMS. +- komeda_kms_dev: attaches or connects komeda_dev to DRM-KMS. All komeda operations are supplied or operated by komeda_dev or komeda_kms_dev, the module driver is only a simple wrapper to pass the Linux command diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/msm-crash-dump.rst b/Documentation/gpu/msm-crash-dump.rst index 240ef200f76c..9509cc4224f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/msm-crash-dump.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/msm-crash-dump.rst @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ module The module that generated the crashdump. time - The kernel time at crash formated as seconds.microseconds. + The kernel time at crash formatted as seconds.microseconds. comm Comm string for the binary that generated the fault. diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_scheduler.rst b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_scheduler.rst index d630f15ab795..23ba7006929b 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_scheduler.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_scheduler.rst @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ i915 with the DRM scheduler is: * Watchdog hooks into DRM scheduler * Lots of complexity of the GuC backend can be pulled out once integrated with DRM scheduler (e.g. state machine gets - simplier, locking gets simplier, etc...) + simpler, locking gets simpler, etc...) * Execlists backend will minimum required to hook in the DRM scheduler * Legacy interface * Features like timeslicing / preemption / virtual engines would diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_vm_bind.rst b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_vm_bind.rst index 9a1dcdf2799e..0b3b525ac620 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_vm_bind.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/rfc/i915_vm_bind.rst @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ submission, they need only one dma-resv fence list updated. Thus, the fast path (where required mappings are already bound) submission latency is O(1) w.r.t the number of VM private BOs. -VM_BIND locking hirarchy +VM_BIND locking hierarchy ------------------------- The locking design here supports the older (execlist based) execbuf mode, the newer VM_BIND mode, the VM_BIND mode with GPU page faults and possible future diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 68bdafa0284f..993948eee1a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Clean up the clipped coordination confusion around planes --------------------------------------------------------- We have a helper to get this right with drm_plane_helper_check_update(), but -it's not consistently used. This should be fixed, preferrably in the atomic +it's not consistently used. This should be fixed, preferably in the atomic helpers (and drivers then moved over to clipped coordinates). Probably the helper should also be moved from drm_plane_helper.c to the atomic helpers, to avoid confusion - the other helpers in that file are all deprecated legacy @@ -181,13 +181,13 @@ reversed. To solve this we need one standard per-object locking mechanism, which is dma_resv_lock(). This lock needs to be called as the outermost lock, with all -other driver specific per-object locks removed. The problem is tha rolling out +other driver specific per-object locks removed. The problem is that rolling out the actual change to the locking contract is a flag day, due to struct dma_buf buffer sharing. Level: Expert -Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device paramater +Convert logging to drm_* functions with drm_device parameter ------------------------------------------------------------ For drivers which could have multiple instances, it is necessary to @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Level: Advanced Benchmark and optimize blitting and format-conversion function -------------------------------------------------------------- -Drawing to dispay memory quickly is crucial for many applications' +Drawing to display memory quickly is crucial for many applications' performance. On at least x86-64, sys_imageblit() is significantly slower than diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst index cff93adf6e42..1eaf2b015837 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/pmbus-core.rst @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ PMBUS_NO_CAPABILITY Some PMBus chips don't respond with valid data when reading the CAPABILITY register. For such chips, this flag should be set so that the PMBus core -driver doesn't use CAPABILITY to determine it's behavior. +driver doesn't use CAPABILITY to determine its behavior. PMBUS_READ_STATUS_AFTER_FAILED_CHECK diff --git a/Documentation/input/devices/iforce-protocol.rst b/Documentation/input/devices/iforce-protocol.rst index 8634beac3fdb..52c1e0dd0ab7 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/devices/iforce-protocol.rst +++ b/Documentation/input/devices/iforce-protocol.rst @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ OP DATA == ==== The 2B, LEN and CS fields have disappeared, probably because USB handles -frames and data corruption is handled or unsignificant. +frames and data corruption is handled or insignificant. First, I describe effects that are sent by the device to the computer diff --git a/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.rst b/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.rst index 1085cbee4ee7..47d3dcb5d44b 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.rst +++ b/Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.rst @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Finger Tracking --------------- The process of finger tracking, i.e., to assign a unique trackingID to each -initiated contact on the surface, is a Euclidian Bipartite Matching +initiated contact on the surface, is a Euclidean Bipartite Matching problem. At each event synchronization, the set of actual contacts is matched to the set of contacts from the previous synchronization. A full implementation can be found in [#f3]_. diff --git a/Documentation/livepatch/reliable-stacktrace.rst b/Documentation/livepatch/reliable-stacktrace.rst index d56bb706172f..8d950f3ffedd 100644 --- a/Documentation/livepatch/reliable-stacktrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/livepatch/reliable-stacktrace.rst @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Principally, the reliable stacktrace function must ensure that either: .. note:: In some cases it is legitimate to omit specific functions from the trace, but all other functions must be reported. These cases are described in - futher detail below. + further detail below. Secondly, the reliable stacktrace function must be robust to cases where the stack or other unwind state is corrupt or otherwise unreliable. The diff --git a/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst b/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst index 82f36cab61bd..56b90eea2731 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ the validator will shoot a splat if incorrect. A lock-class's behavior is constructed by its instances collectively: when the first instance of a lock-class is used after bootup the class gets registered, then all (subsequent) instances will be mapped to the -class and hence their usages and dependecies will contribute to those of +class and hence their usages and dependencies will contribute to those of the class. A lock-class does not go away when a lock instance does, but it can be removed if the memory space of the lock class (static or dynamic) is reclaimed, this happens for example when a module is @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ exact case is for the lock as of the reporting time. +--------------+-------------+--------------+ The character '-' suggests irq is disabled because if otherwise the -charactor '?' would have been shown instead. Similar deduction can be +character '?' would have been shown instead. Similar deduction can be applied for '+' too. Unused locks (e.g., mutexes) cannot be part of the cause of an error. diff --git a/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst index 7f56fc0d7c31..3e763f77a620 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/locktorture.rst @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ stutter without pausing. shuffle_interval - The number of seconds to keep the test threads affinitied + The number of seconds to keep the test threads affinitized to a particular subset of the CPUs, defaults to 3 seconds. Used in conjunction with test_no_idle_hz. diff --git a/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst b/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst index 9933faad4771..80c914f6eae7 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ caveats also apply to bit spinlocks. Some bit spinlocks are replaced with regular spinlock_t for PREEMPT_RT using conditional (#ifdef'ed) code changes at the usage site. In contrast, usage-site changes are not needed for the spinlock_t substitution. -Instead, conditionals in header files and the core locking implemementation +Instead, conditionals in header files and the core locking implementation enable the compiler to do the substitution transparently. diff --git a/Documentation/mm/hmm.rst b/Documentation/mm/hmm.rst index 9aa512c3a12c..fec21e6f2284 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/hmm.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/hmm.rst @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ entries. Any attempt to access the swap entry results in a fault which is resovled by replacing the entry with the original mapping. A driver gets notified that the mapping has been changed by MMU notifiers, after which point it will no longer have exclusive access to the page. Exclusive access is -guranteed to last until the driver drops the page lock and page reference, at +guaranteed to last until the driver drops the page lock and page reference, at which point any CPU faults on the page may proceed as described. Memory cgroup (memcg) and rss accounting diff --git a/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst index ba48a441feed..483b72aa7c11 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ of applications. KVM support requires a recent qemu-kvm release. For the KVM use there was need for a new signal type so that KVM can inject the machine check into the guest with the proper address. This in theory allows other applications to handle -memory failures too. The expection is that near all applications +memory failures too. The expectation is that most applications won't do that, but some very specialized ones might. Failure recovery modes diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst index e35af7805be5..f1ce67a26615 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ The following events (counters) can be used to monitor page migration. 4. THP_MIGRATION_FAIL: A THP could not be migrated nor it could be split. 5. THP_MIGRATION_SPLIT: A THP was migrated, but not as such: first, the THP had - to be split. After splitting, a migration retry was used for it's sub-pages. + to be split. After splitting, a migration retry was used for its sub-pages. THP_MIGRATION_* events also update the appropriate PGMIGRATE_SUCCESS or PGMIGRATE_FAIL events. For example, a THP migration failure will cause both diff --git a/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst b/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst index d5ac8511eb67..67f1338440a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ can request that a region of memory be mlocked by supplying the MAP_LOCKED flag to the mmap() call. There is one important and subtle difference here, though. mmap() + mlock() will fail if the range cannot be faulted in (e.g. because mm_populate fails) and returns with ENOMEM while mmap(MAP_LOCKED) will not fail. -The mmaped area will still have properties of the locked area - pages will not +The mmapped area will still have properties of the locked area - pages will not get swapped out - but major page faults to fault memory in might still happen. Furthermore, any mmap() call or brk() call that expands the heap by a task diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst index 689a6907c70b..21f159b8afbe 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ HugeTLB This section is to explain how HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) works. The ``struct page`` structures are used to describe a physical page frame. By -default, there is a one-to-one mapping from a page frame to it's corresponding +default, there is a one-to-one mapping from a page frame to its corresponding ``struct page``. HugeTLB pages consist of multiple base page size pages and is supported by many diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-c.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-c.yaml index 57d1c1c4918f..2627a384ae01 100644 --- a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-c.yaml +++ b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-c.yaml @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ properties: description: Name of the define for the family name. type: string c-version-name: - description: Name of the define for the verion of the family. + description: Name of the define for the version of the family. type: string max-by-define: description: Makes the number of attributes and commands be specified by a define, not an enum value. diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml index 43b769c98fb2..30803dc21123 100644 --- a/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml +++ b/Documentation/netlink/genetlink-legacy.yaml @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ properties: description: Name of the define for the family name. type: string c-version-name: - description: Name of the define for the verion of the family. + description: Name of the define for the version of the family. type: string max-by-define: description: Makes the number of attributes and commands be specified by a define, not an enum value. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst index 28925e19622d..f7a73421eb76 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst @@ -1636,7 +1636,7 @@ your init script:: ----------------------------------------- This section applies to distros which use /etc/network/interfaces file -to describe network interface configuration, most notably Debian and it's +to describe network interface configuration, most notably Debian and its derivatives. The ifup and ifdown commands on Debian don't support bonding out of diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst index 3da590953ce8..e0c7b95f505b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-port.rst @@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ API allows to configure following rate object's parameters: Allows for usage of Weighted Fair Queuing arbitration scheme among siblings. This arbitration scheme can be used simultaneously with the strict priority. As a node is configured with a higher rate it gets more - BW relative to it's siblings. Values are relative like a percentage + BW relative to its siblings. Values are relative like a percentage points, they basically tell how much BW should node take relative to - it's siblings. + its siblings. ``parent`` Parent node name. Parent node rate limits are considered as additional limits @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ Arbitration flow from the high level: #. If group of nodes have the same priority perform WFQ arbitration on that subgroup. Use ``tx_weight`` as a parameter for this arbitration. -#. Select the winner node, and continue arbitration flow among it's children, +#. Select the winner node, and continue arbitration flow among its children, until leaf node is reached, and the winner is established. #. If all the nodes from the highest priority sub-group are satisfied, or diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst index c5da1a5d93de..30a3be3c48f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ AF_PACKET TPACKET_V3 example ============================ AF_PACKET's TPACKET_V3 ring buffer can be configured to use non-static frame -sizes by doing it's own memory management. It is based on blocks where polling +sizes by doing its own memory management. It is based on blocks where polling works on a per block basis instead of per ring as in TPACKET_V2 and predecessor. It is said that TPACKET_V3 brings the following benefits: diff --git a/Documentation/power/energy-model.rst b/Documentation/power/energy-model.rst index ef341be2882b..13225965c9a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/energy-model.rst +++ b/Documentation/power/energy-model.rst @@ -87,9 +87,9 @@ CONFIG_ENERGY_MODEL must be enabled to use the EM framework. Registration of 'advanced' EM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The 'advanced' EM gets it's name due to the fact that the driver is allowed +The 'advanced' EM gets its name due to the fact that the driver is allowed to provide more precised power model. It's not limited to some implemented math -formula in the framework (like it's in 'simple' EM case). It can better reflect +formula in the framework (like it is in 'simple' EM case). It can better reflect the real power measurements performed for each performance state. Thus, this registration method should be preferred in case considering EM static power (leakage) is important. diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst index 2ab99006014c..f735ec5375d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ DSCR register in powerpc allows user to have some control of prefetch of data stream in the processor. Please refer to the ISA documents or related manual for more detailed information regarding how to use this DSCR to attain this control of the prefetches . This document here provides an overview of kernel -support for DSCR, related kernel objects, it's functionalities and exported +support for DSCR, related kernel objects, its functionalities and exported user interface. (A) Data Structures: diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt index f032b4eaf205..a4f647e4fffa 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ checks can be delayed until after the MMU is set is up, and we can just not instrument any code that runs with translations off after booting. This is the current approach. -To avoid this limitiation, the KASAN shadow would have to be placed inside the +To avoid this limitation, the KASAN shadow would have to be placed inside the linear mapping, using the same high-bits trick we use for the rest of the linear mapping. This is tricky: diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst index fce8bc793660..80d2c0aadab5 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ privileged operations. Currently there are two PAPR compliant hypervisors: On PPC64 arch a guest kernel running on top of a PAPR hypervisor is called a *pSeries guest*. A pseries guest runs in a supervisor mode (HV=0) and must issue hypercalls to the hypervisor whenever it needs to perform an action -that is hypervisor priviledged [3]_ or for other services managed by the +that is hypervisor privileged [3]_ or for other services managed by the hypervisor. Hence a Hypercall (hcall) is essentially a request by the pseries guest diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst index 42f5103140c9..a358f152b7e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst @@ -232,11 +232,11 @@ For example, to match the 8323, revision 1.0:: 'extended_modes' is a bitfield that defines special functionality which has an impact on the device drivers. Each bit has its own impact and has special instructions for the driver associated with it. This field is stored in -the QE library and available to any driver that calles qe_get_firmware_info(). +the QE library and available to any driver that calls qe_get_firmware_info(). 'vtraps' is an array of 8 words that contain virtual trap values for each virtual traps. As with 'extended_modes', this field is stored in the QE -library and available to any driver that calles qe_get_firmware_info(). +library and available to any driver that calls qe_get_firmware_info(). 'microcode' (type: struct qe_microcode): For each RISC processor there is one 'microcode' structure. The first diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst index bdb50fed903e..a9625a2fa0c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ request queue into the application's virtual address space. The application can then submit one or more requests to the engine by using copy/paste instructions and pasting the CRBs to the virtual address (aka paste_address) returned by mmap(). User space can close the -established connection or send window by closing the file descriptior +established connection or send window by closing the file descriptor (close(fd)) or upon the process exit. Note that applications can send several requests with the same window or @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ issued. This signal returns with the following siginfo struct:: siginfo.si_signo = SIGSEGV; siginfo.si_errno = EFAULT; siginfo.si_code = SEGV_MAPERR; - siginfo.si_addr = CSB adress; + siginfo.si_addr = CSB address; In the case of multi-thread applications, NX send windows can be shared across all threads. For example, a child thread can open a send window, diff --git a/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst b/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst index 9739b88463a5..a05e8401de1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ Not every problem needs a new ioctl: it's much quicker to push a driver-private interface than engaging in lengthy discussions for a more generic solution. And occasionally doing a private interface to spearhead a new concept is what's required. But in the - end, once the generic interface comes around you'll end up maintainer two + end, once the generic interface comes around you'll end up maintaining two interfaces. Indefinitely. * Consider other interfaces than ioctls. A sysfs attribute is much better for diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst index 26ead9d31c01..8660493b91d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ All documents are cataloged with the following fields: the document's The documents on each section of this document are ordered by its published date, from the newest to the oldest. The maintainer(s) should - periodically retire resources as they become obsolte or outdated; with + periodically retire resources as they become obsolete or outdated; with the exception of foundational books. Docs at the Linux Kernel tree diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/hwprobe.rst b/Documentation/riscv/hwprobe.rst index 19165ebd82ba..67111304ae5f 100644 --- a/Documentation/riscv/hwprobe.rst +++ b/Documentation/riscv/hwprobe.rst @@ -88,11 +88,11 @@ The following keys are defined: always extremely slow. * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_SLOW`: Misaligned accesses are supported - in hardware, but are slower than the cooresponding aligned accesses + in hardware, but are slower than the corresponding aligned accesses sequences. * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_FAST`: Misaligned accesses are supported - in hardware and are faster than the cooresponding aligned accesses + in hardware and are faster than the corresponding aligned accesses sequences. * :c:macro:`RISCV_HWPROBE_MISALIGNED_UNSUPPORTED`: Misaligned accesses are diff --git a/Documentation/riscv/vector.rst b/Documentation/riscv/vector.rst index 165b7ed0ac4f..75dd88a62e1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/riscv/vector.rst +++ b/Documentation/riscv/vector.rst @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ order to support the use of the RISC-V Vector Extension. Two new prctl() calls are added to allow programs to manage the enablement status for the use of Vector in userspace. The intended usage guideline for these interfaces is to give init systems a way to modify the availability of V -for processes running under its domain. Calling thess interfaces is not +for processes running under its domain. Calling these interfaces is not recommended in libraries routines because libraries should not override policies configured from the parant process. Also, users must noted that these interfaces are not portable to non-Linux, nor non-RISC-V environments, so it is discourage diff --git a/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst b/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst index bb3f4c4e2885..929ee1c1c940 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst +++ b/Documentation/s390/vfio-ap.rst @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Configure the guest's AP resources Configuring the AP resources for a KVM guest will be performed when the VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM notifier callback is invoked. The notifier function is called when userspace connects to KVM. The guest's AP resources are -configured via it's APCB by: +configured via its APCB by: * Setting the bits in the APM corresponding to the APIDs assigned to the vfio_ap mediated device via its 'assign_adapter' interface. diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst index f166b182ff95..41ed2ceafc92 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-bwc.rst @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ average usage, albeit over a longer time window than a single period. This also limits the burst ability to no more than 1ms per cpu. This provides better more predictable user experience for highly threaded applications with small quota limits on high core count machines. It also eliminates the -propensity to throttle these applications while simultanously using less than +propensity to throttle these applications while simultaneously using less than quota amounts of cpu. Another way to say this, is that by allowing the unused portion of a slice to remain valid across periods we have decreased the possibility of wastefully expiring quota on cpu-local silos that don't need a diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst index 8fbce5e767d9..fc853c8cc346 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-energy.rst @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ through the arch_scale_cpu_capacity() callback. The rest of platform knowledge used by EAS is directly read from the Energy Model (EM) framework. The EM of a platform is composed of a power cost table per 'performance domain' in the system (see Documentation/power/energy-model.rst -for futher details about performance domains). +for further details about performance domains). The scheduler manages references to the EM objects in the topology code when the scheduling domains are built, or re-built. For each root domain (rd), the @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ mechanism called 'over-utilization'. From a general standpoint, the use-cases where EAS can help the most are those involving a light/medium CPU utilization. Whenever long CPU-bound tasks are being run, they will require all of the available CPU capacity, and there isn't -much that can be done by the scheduler to save energy without severly harming +much that can be done by the scheduler to save energy without severely harming throughput. In order to avoid hurting performance with EAS, CPUs are flagged as 'over-utilized' as soon as they are used at more than 80% of their compute capacity. As long as no CPUs are over-utilized in a root domain, load balancing diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc index d16e6874d223..ccc48b8359bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ Changes from 20041207 to 20041213 * Changed version number to 8.0.17 * Fix sparse warnings by adding __iomem markers to lpfc_compat.h. * Fix some sparse warnings -- 0 used as NULL pointer. - * Make sure there's a space between every if and it's (. + * Make sure there's a space between every if and its (. * Fix some overly long lines and make sure hard tabs are used for indentation. * Remove all trailing whitespace. diff --git a/Documentation/security/digsig.rst b/Documentation/security/digsig.rst index f6a8902d3ef7..de035f282196 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/digsig.rst +++ b/Documentation/security/digsig.rst @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ The signing and key management utilities evm-utils provide functionality to generate signatures, to load keys into the kernel keyring. Keys can be in PEM or converted to the kernel format. When the key is added to the kernel keyring, the keyid defines the name -of the key: 5D2B05FC633EE3E8 in the example bellow. +of the key: 5D2B05FC633EE3E8 in the example below. Here is example output of the keyctl utility:: diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst b/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst index 811b905b56bf..326b8a973828 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst +++ b/Documentation/security/keys/core.rst @@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are: - ``char *hashname`` specifies the NUL terminated string identifying the hash used from the kernel crypto API and applied for the KDF - operation. The KDF implemenation complies with SP800-56A as well + operation. The KDF implementation complies with SP800-56A as well as with SP800-108 (the counter KDF). - ``char *otherinfo`` specifies the OtherInfo data as documented in diff --git a/Documentation/security/secrets/coco.rst b/Documentation/security/secrets/coco.rst index 087e2d1ae38b..a1210db8ec07 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/secrets/coco.rst +++ b/Documentation/security/secrets/coco.rst @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ be use it for its own purposes. During the VM's launch, the virtual machine manager may inject a secret to that area. In AMD SEV and SEV-ES this is performed using the -``KVM_SEV_LAUNCH_SECRET`` command (see [sev]_). The strucutre of the injected +``KVM_SEV_LAUNCH_SECRET`` command (see [sev]_). The structure of the injected Guest Owner secret data should be a GUIDed table of secret values; the binary format is described in ``drivers/virt/coco/efi_secret/efi_secret.c`` under "Structure of the EFI secret area". diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/cdomain.py b/Documentation/sphinx/cdomain.py index ca8ac9e59ded..a99716bf44b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/sphinx/cdomain.py +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/cdomain.py @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class CObject(Base_CObject): if len(arglist[0].split(" ")) > 1: return False - # This is a function-like macro, it's arguments are typeless! + # This is a function-like macro, its arguments are typeless! signode += addnodes.desc_name(fullname, fullname) paramlist = addnodes.desc_parameterlist() signode += paramlist diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp.rst b/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp.rst index 0144e12d95bb..2f20e5b405e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp.rst +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp.rst @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Interpreting this circuit, when the LM70 SI/O line is High (or tristate and not grounded by the host via D7), the transistor conducts and switches the collector to zero, which is reflected on pin 13 of the DB25 parport connector. When SI/O is Low (driven by the LM70 or the host) on the other -hand, the transistor is cut off and the voltage tied to it's collector is +hand, the transistor is cut off and the voltage tied to its collector is reflected on pin 13 as a High level. So: the getmiso inline routine in this driver takes this fact into account, diff --git a/Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-top.rst b/Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-top.rst index 1b7cf4e3eafe..ab6cb60c9083 100644 --- a/Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-top.rst +++ b/Documentation/tools/rtla/rtla-timerlat-top.rst @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ syscall in a btrfs file system. The raw trace is saved in the **timerlat_trace.txt** file for further analysis. Note that **rtla timerlat** was dispatched without changing *timerlat* tracer -threads' priority. That is generally not needed because these threads hava +threads' priority. That is generally not needed because these threads have priority *FIFO:95* by default, which is a common priority used by real-time kernel developers to analyze scheduling delays. diff --git a/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-etm4x-reference.rst b/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-etm4x-reference.rst index 70e34b8c81c1..89ac4e6fc96f 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-etm4x-reference.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-etm4x-reference.rst @@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ Bit assignments shown below:- reconstructed using only conditional branches. There is currently no support in Perf for supplying modified binaries to the decoder, so this - feature is only inteded to be used for debugging purposes or with a 3rd party tool. + feature is only intended to be used for debugging purposes or with a 3rd party tool. Choosing this option will result in a significant increase in the amount of trace generated - possible danger of overflows, or fewer instructions covered. Note, that this option also diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.rst b/Documentation/trace/events.rst index f5fcb8e1218f..15f78e772384 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/events.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/events.rst @@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ functions can be used. To create a kprobe event, an empty or partially empty kprobe event should first be created using kprobe_event_gen_cmd_start(). The name -of the event and the probe location should be specfied along with one +of the event and the probe location should be specified along with one or args each representing a probe field should be supplied to this function. Before calling kprobe_event_gen_cmd_start(), the user should create and initialize a dynevent_cmd object using @@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ The basic idea is simple and amounts to providing a general-purpose layer that can be used to generate trace event commands. The generated command strings can then be passed to the command-parsing and event creation code that already exists in the trace event -subystem for creating the corresponding trace events. +subsystem for creating the corresponding trace events. In a nutshell, the way it works is that the higher-level interface code creates a struct dynevent_cmd object, then uses a couple @@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ to add an operator between the pair (here none) and a separator to be appended onto the end of the arg pair (here ';'). There's also a dynevent_str_add() function that can be used to simply -add a string as-is, with no spaces, delimeters, or arg check. +add a string as-is, with no spaces, delimiters, or arg check. Any number of dynevent_*_add() calls can be made to build up the string (until its length surpasses cmd->maxlen). When all the arguments have diff --git a/Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst b/Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst index 40dd2fbce861..7a895514b537 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ If the entry callback function returns !0, the corresponding exit callback will the instruction pointer of @regs may be different from the @entry_ip in the entry_handler. If you need traced instruction pointer, you need to use @entry_ip. On the other hand, in the exit_handler, the instruction - pointer of @regs is set to the currect return address. + pointer of @regs is set to the current return address. @entry_data This is a local storage to share the data between entry and exit handlers. diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst index f606c5bd1c0d..23572f6697c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst @@ -2725,7 +2725,7 @@ It is default disabled. The return value of each traced function can be displayed after an equal sign "=". When encountering system call failures, it -can be verfy helpful to quickly locate the function that first +can be very helpful to quickly locate the function that first returns an error code. - hide: echo nofuncgraph-retval > trace_options diff --git a/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst b/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst index de94b499b0bc..11b749c2a8bd 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/hwlat_detector.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ originally written for use by the "RT" patch since the Real Time kernel is highly latency sensitive. SMIs are not serviced by the Linux kernel, which means that it does not -even know that they are occuring. SMIs are instead set up by BIOS code +even know that they are occurring. SMIs are instead set up by BIOS code and are serviced by BIOS code, usually for "critical" events such as management of thermal sensors and fans. Sometimes though, SMIs are used for other tasks and those tasks can spend an inordinate amount of time in the diff --git a/Documentation/trace/rv/da_monitor_synthesis.rst b/Documentation/trace/rv/da_monitor_synthesis.rst index 0dbdcd1e62b9..0a92729c8a9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/rv/da_monitor_synthesis.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/rv/da_monitor_synthesis.rst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Deterministic Automata Monitor Synthesis ======================================== -The starting point for the application of runtime verification (RV) technics +The starting point for the application of runtime verification (RV) techniques is the *specification* or *modeling* of the desired (or undesired) behavior of the system under scrutiny. diff --git a/Documentation/trace/rv/monitor_wwnr.rst b/Documentation/trace/rv/monitor_wwnr.rst index 80f1777b85aa..9f739030f826 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/rv/monitor_wwnr.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/rv/monitor_wwnr.rst @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ definition:: | running | -+ +-------------+ -This model is borken, the reason is that a task can be running +This model is broken, the reason is that a task can be running in the processor without being set as RUNNABLE. Think about a task about to sleep:: diff --git a/Documentation/trace/rv/runtime-verification.rst b/Documentation/trace/rv/runtime-verification.rst index c46b6149470e..dae78dfa7cdc 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/rv/runtime-verification.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/rv/runtime-verification.rst @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ In Linux terms, the runtime verification monitors are encapsulated inside the *RV monitor* abstraction. A *RV monitor* includes a reference model of the system, a set of instances of the monitor (per-cpu monitor, per-task monitor, and so on), and the helper functions that glue the monitor to the system via -trace, as depicted bellow:: +trace, as depicted below:: Linux +---- RV Monitor ----------------------------------+ Formal Realm | | Realm diff --git a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.rst b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.rst index 122d15572fd5..01f6a780fb04 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.rst @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Synopsis of uprobe_tracer (\*1) only for return probe. (\*2) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. - (\*3) Unlike kprobe event, "u" prefix will just be ignored, becuse uprobe + (\*3) Unlike kprobe event, "u" prefix will just be ignored, because uprobe events can access only user-space memory. Types diff --git a/Documentation/trace/user_events.rst b/Documentation/trace/user_events.rst index e7b07313550a..f9530d0ac5d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/user_events.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/user_events.rst @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ or perf record -e user_events:[name] when attaching/recording. **NOTE:** The event subsystem name by default is "user_events". Callers should not assume it will always be "user_events". Operators reserve the right in the -future to change the subsystem name per-process to accomodate event isolation. +future to change the subsystem name per-process to accommodate event isolation. Command Format ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ diff --git a/Documentation/usb/gadget_uvc.rst b/Documentation/usb/gadget_uvc.rst index 62bd81ba3dd1..80a1f031b593 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_uvc.rst +++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_uvc.rst @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ Header linking The UVC specification requires that Format and Frame descriptors be preceded by Headers detailing things such as the number and cumulative size of the different -Format descriptors that follow. This and similar operations are acheived in +Format descriptors that follow. This and similar operations are achieved in configfs by linking between the configfs item representing the header and the config items representing those other descriptors, in this manner: diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst index 81e60f4002c8..786127b1e206 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst @@ -3293,7 +3293,7 @@ AV1 Frame Restoration Type. .. c:type:: v4l2_av1_loop_restoration -AV1 Loop Restauration as described in section 6.10.15 "Loop restoration params +AV1 Loop Restoration as described in section 6.10.15 "Loop restoration params semantics" of :ref:`av1`. .. cssclass:: longtable diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-d4xx.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-d4xx.rst index 541836074f94..0686413b16b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-d4xx.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-d4xx.rst @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Fish Eye sensor: :: camera projectors. As we have another field for "Laser Power" we introduced "LED Power" for extra emitter. -The "Laser mode" __u32 fiels has been split into: :: +The "Laser mode" __u32 fields has been split into: :: 1 __u8 Emitter mode 2 __u8 RFU byte 3 __u16 LED Power diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro.rst index 0955e9f203d3..af94e71761ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro.rst @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ and ``SET``. Each object can handle all or some of those requests is defined by the 2 lowest bits of the message type, so commands for new objects would always be allocated with a stride of 4. -Each object would also have it's own fixed metadata shared by all request +Each object would also have its own fixed metadata shared by all request types (e.g. struct ifinfomsg for netdev requests, struct ifaddrmsg for address requests, struct tcmsg for qdisc requests). diff --git a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst index 2da2879fad52..a56f4837d443 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ vDSO, and gettimeofday() and related system calls can execute entirely in user space. The vDSO is implemented by mapping the shared page with scale and offset values into user space. User space code performs the same algorithm of reading the TSC and -appying the scale and offset to get the constant 10 MHz clock. +applying the scale and offset to get the constant 10 MHz clock. Linux clockevents are based on Hyper-V synthetic timer 0. While Hyper-V offers 4 synthetic timers for each CPU, Linux only uses diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index c0ddd3035462..73db30cb60fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ This is an asynchronous vcpu ioctl and can be invoked from any thread. RISC-V: ^^^^^^^ -Queues an external interrupt to be injected into the virutal CPU. This ioctl +Queues an external interrupt to be injected into the virtual CPU. This ioctl is overloaded with 2 different irq values: a) KVM_INTERRUPT_SET @@ -2722,7 +2722,7 @@ The isa config register can be read anytime but can only be written before a Guest VCPU runs. It will have ISA feature bits matching underlying host set by default. -RISC-V core registers represent the general excution state of a Guest VCPU +RISC-V core registers represent the general execution state of a Guest VCPU and it has the following id bit patterns:: 0x8020 0000 02 <index into the kvm_riscv_core struct:24> (32bit Host) @@ -5232,7 +5232,7 @@ KVM_PV_DISABLE Deregister the VM from the Ultravisor and reclaim the memory that had been donated to the Ultravisor, making it usable by the kernel again. All registered VCPUs are converted back to non-protected ones. If a - previous protected VM had been prepared for asynchonous teardown with + previous protected VM had been prepared for asynchronous teardown with KVM_PV_ASYNC_CLEANUP_PREPARE and not subsequently torn down with KVM_PV_ASYNC_CLEANUP_PERFORM, it will be torn down in this call together with the current protected VM. @@ -5692,7 +5692,7 @@ flags values for ``kvm_sregs2``: ``KVM_SREGS2_FLAGS_PDPTRS_VALID`` - Indicates thats the struct contain valid PDPTR values. + Indicates that the struct contains valid PDPTR values. 4.132 KVM_SET_SREGS2 @@ -6263,7 +6263,7 @@ to the byte array. It is strongly recommended that userspace use ``KVM_EXIT_IO`` (x86) or ``KVM_EXIT_MMIO`` (all except s390) to implement functionality that -requires a guest to interact with host userpace. +requires a guest to interact with host userspace. .. note:: KVM_EXIT_IO is significantly faster than KVM_EXIT_MMIO. @@ -6336,7 +6336,7 @@ s390 specific. } s390_ucontrol; s390 specific. A page fault has occurred for a user controlled virtual -machine (KVM_VM_S390_UNCONTROL) on it's host page table that cannot be +machine (KVM_VM_S390_UNCONTROL) on its host page table that cannot be resolved by the kernel. The program code and the translation exception code that were placed in the cpu's lowcore are presented here as defined by the z Architecture @@ -7510,7 +7510,7 @@ APIC/MSRs/etc). attribute is not supported by KVM. KVM_CAP_SGX_ATTRIBUTE enables a userspace VMM to grant a VM access to one or -more priveleged enclave attributes. args[0] must hold a file handle to a valid +more privileged enclave attributes. args[0] must hold a file handle to a valid SGX attribute file corresponding to an attribute that is supported/restricted by KVM (currently only PROVISIONKEY). @@ -7928,7 +7928,7 @@ writing to the respective MSRs. This capability indicates that userspace can load HV_X64_MSR_VP_INDEX msr. Its value is used to denote the target vcpu for a SynIC interrupt. For -compatibilty, KVM initializes this msr to KVM's internal vcpu index. When this +compatibility, KVM initializes this msr to KVM's internal vcpu index. When this capability is absent, userspace can still query this msr's value. 8.13 KVM_CAP_S390_AIS_MIGRATION @@ -8118,10 +8118,10 @@ regardless of what has actually been exposed through the CPUID leaf. :Parameters: args[0] - size of the dirty log ring KVM is capable of tracking dirty memory using ring buffers that are -mmaped into userspace; there is one dirty ring per vcpu. +mmapped into userspace; there is one dirty ring per vcpu. The dirty ring is available to userspace as an array of -``struct kvm_dirty_gfn``. Each dirty entry it's defined as:: +``struct kvm_dirty_gfn``. Each dirty entry is defined as:: struct kvm_dirty_gfn { __u32 flags; @@ -8160,7 +8160,7 @@ state machine for the entry is as follows:: | | +------------------------------------------+ -To harvest the dirty pages, userspace accesses the mmaped ring buffer +To harvest the dirty pages, userspace accesses the mmapped ring buffer to read the dirty GFNs. If the flags has the DIRTY bit set (at this stage the RESET bit must be cleared), then it means this GFN is a dirty GFN. The userspace should harvest this GFN and mark the flags from state @@ -8286,7 +8286,7 @@ the KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_UPDATE_FLAG attribute in the KVM_XEN_SET_ATTR and KVM_XEN_GET_ATTR ioctls. This controls whether KVM will set the XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag in guest memory mapped vcpu_runstate_info during updates of the runstate information. Note that versions of KVM which support -the RUNSTATE feature above, but not thie RUNSTATE_UPDATE_FLAG feature, will +the RUNSTATE feature above, but not the RUNSTATE_UPDATE_FLAG feature, will always set the XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag when updating the guest structure, which is perhaps counterintuitive. When this flag is advertised, KVM will behave more correctly, not using the XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag until/unless @@ -8335,7 +8335,7 @@ Architectures: x86 When enabled, KVM will disable emulated Hyper-V features provided to the guest according to the bits Hyper-V CPUID feature leaves. Otherwise, all -currently implmented Hyper-V features are provided unconditionally when +currently implemented Hyper-V features are provided unconditionally when Hyper-V identification is set in the HYPERV_CPUID_INTERFACE (0x40000001) leaf. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst index 9d726e60ec47..a4d39fa1b083 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Allows user space to retrieve or request to change cpu related information for a KVM does not enforce or limit the cpu model data in any form. Take the information retrieved by means of KVM_S390_VM_CPU_MACHINE as hint for reasonable configuration setups. Instruction interceptions triggered by additionally set facility bits that -are not handled by KVM need to by imlemented in the VM driver code. +are not handled by KVM need to by implemented in the VM driver code. :Parameters: address of buffer to store/set the processor related cpu data of type struct kvm_s390_vm_cpu_processor*. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xive.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xive.rst index 8b5e7b40bdf8..a07e16d34006 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xive.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xive.rst @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ the legacy interrupt mode, referred as XICS (POWER7/8). When a device is passed-through into the guest, the source interrupts are from a different HW controller (PHB4) and the ESB - pages exposed to the guest should accommadate this change. + pages exposed to the guest should accommodate this change. The passthru_irq helpers, kvmppc_xive_set_mapped() and kvmppc_xive_clr_mapped() are called when the device HW irqs are diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst index 4f1a1b23d99c..c82a04b709b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ before giving up the cpu to the scheduler in order to let something else run. Polling provides a latency advantage in cases where the guest can be run again very quickly by at least saving us a trip through the scheduler, normally on the order of a few micro-seconds, although performance benefits are workload -dependant. In the event that no wakeup source arrives during the polling +dependent. In the event that no wakeup source arrives during the polling interval or some other task on the runqueue is runnable the scheduler is invoked. Thus halt polling is especially useful on workloads with very short wakeup periods where the time spent halt polling is minimised and the time diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst index 26f62034b6f3..d47595b33fcf 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: unsynchronized children). unsync_child_bitmap: A bitmap indicating which sptes in spt point (directly or indirectly) at - pages that may be unsynchronized. Used to quickly locate all unsychronized + pages that may be unsynchronized. Used to quickly locate all unsynchronized pages reachable from a given page. clear_spte_count: Only present on 32-bit hosts, where a 64-bit spte cannot be written diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/running-nested-guests.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/running-nested-guests.rst index 71136fe1723b..87326413d5c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/running-nested-guests.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/running-nested-guests.rst @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Enabling "nested" (s390x) $ modprobe kvm nested=1 .. note:: On s390x, the kernel parameter ``hpage`` is mutually exclusive - with the ``nested`` paramter — i.e. to be able to enable + with the ``nested`` parameter — i.e. to be able to enable ``nested``, the ``hpage`` parameter *must* be disabled. 2. The guest hypervisor (L1) must be provided with the ``sie`` CPU diff --git a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst index af2a97429692..d1cfe415e4c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ between a driver and the host at the UML command line is OK security-wise. Allowing it as a loadable module parameter isn't. -If such functionality is desireable for a particular application +If such functionality is desirable for a particular application (e.g. loading BPF "firmware" for raw socket network transports), it should be off by default and should be explicitly turned on as a command line parameter at startup. diff --git a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst index 758dadba84f6..6aec04dd0905 100644 --- a/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst +++ b/Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_therm.rst @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ A strong pullup will be applied during the conversion if required. ``conv_time`` is used to get current conversion time (read), and adjust it (write). A temperature conversion time depends on the device type and -it's current resolution. Default conversion time is set by the driver according +its current resolution. Default conversion time is set by the driver according to the device datasheet. A conversion time for many original device clones deviate from datasheet specs. There are three options: 1) manually set the correct conversion time by writing a value in milliseconds to ``conv_time``; 2) diff --git a/Documentation/w1/w1-generic.rst b/Documentation/w1/w1-generic.rst index 99255b6d0e53..96a042585fce 100644 --- a/Documentation/w1/w1-generic.rst +++ b/Documentation/w1/w1-generic.rst @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ w1_master_search (rw) the number of searches left to do, w1_master_slave_count (ro) the number of slaves found w1_master_slaves (ro) the names of the slaves, one per line w1_master_timeout (ro) the delay in seconds between searches -w1_master_timeout_us (ro) the delay in microseconds beetwen searches +w1_master_timeout_us (ro) the delay in microseconds between searches ========================= ===================================================== If you have a w1 bus that never changes (you don't add or remove devices), diff --git a/Documentation/w1/w1-netlink.rst b/Documentation/w1/w1-netlink.rst index aaa13243a5e4..be4f7b82dcb4 100644 --- a/Documentation/w1/w1-netlink.rst +++ b/Documentation/w1/w1-netlink.rst @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Each connector message can include one or more w1_netlink_msg with zero or more attached w1_netlink_cmd messages. For event messages there are no w1_netlink_cmd embedded structures, -only connector header and w1_netlink_msg strucutre with "len" field +only connector header and w1_netlink_msg structure with "len" field being zero and filled type (one of event types) and id: either 8 bytes of slave unique id in host order, or master's id, which is assigned to bus master device diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst index baf44e986b07..243231fe4c0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-kernel-api.rst @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ It contains following fields: * groups: List of sysfs attribute groups to create when creating the watchdog device. * info: a pointer to a watchdog_info structure. This structure gives some - additional information about the watchdog timer itself. (Like it's unique name) + additional information about the watchdog timer itself. (Like its unique name) * ops: a pointer to the list of watchdog operations that the watchdog supports. * gov: a pointer to the assigned watchdog device pretimeout governor or NULL. * timeout: the watchdog timer's timeout value (in seconds). diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst b/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst index d8aa64e9c827..30313977bd25 100644 --- a/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst +++ b/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ Performs an analysis of the battery and returns a status code: WMI method BatteryeRawAnalytics() --------------------------------- -Returns a buffer usually containg 12 blocks of analytics data. +Returns a buffer usually containing 12 blocks of analytics data. Those blocks contain: - block number starting with 0 (u8) - 31 bytes of unknown data @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Returns the WMI interface version as an u32. WMI method FanSensorInformation() --------------------------------- -Returns a buffer containg fan sensor entries, terminated +Returns a buffer containing fan sensor entries, terminated with a single ``0xff``. Those entries contain: |