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authorBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>2023-08-14 23:28:22 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2023-08-18 19:29:03 +0200
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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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/mm/hmm.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mm/unevictable-lru.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst2
5 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
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