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89 files changed, 109 insertions, 138 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index e59480db9ee0..cc2450d80310 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ all pending DMA writes to complete, and thus provides a mechanism to strictly order DMA from a device across all intervening busses and bridges. This barrier is not specific to a particular type of interconnect, it applies to the system as a whole, and so its -implementation must account for the idiosyncracies of the system all +implementation must account for the idiosyncrasies of the system all the way from the DMA device to memory. As an example of a situation where DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER would be @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ such mapping is non-trivial task and consumes very limited resources Buffers allocated with this attribute can be only passed to user space by calling dma_mmap_attrs(). By using this API, you are guaranteeing that you won't dereference the pointer returned by dma_alloc_attr(). You -can threat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and +can treat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and dma_free_attrs(). Make sure that both of these also get this attribute set on each call. @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ to 'device' domain, what synchronizes CPU caches for the given region (usually it means that the cache has been flushed or invalidated depending on the dma direction). However, next calls to dma_map_{single,page,sg}() for other devices will perform exactly the -same sychronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache sychronization +same synchronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache synchronization might be a time consuming operation, especially if the buffers are large, so it is highly recommended to avoid it if possible. DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC allows platform code to skip synchronization of diff --git a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX index a9248da5cdbc..ef2ccbf77fa2 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX @@ -8,5 +8,9 @@ hpet_example.c - sample hpet timer test program hrtimers.txt - subsystem for high-resolution kernel timers +NO_HZ.txt + - Summary of the different methods for the scheduler clock-interrupts management. +timers-howto.txt + - how to insert delays in the kernel the right (tm) way. timer_stats.txt - timer usage statistics diff --git a/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt index 8ec2a67c39b7..4cf53e406613 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Linux provides a number of functions for gadgets to use. Creating a gadget means deciding what configurations there will be and which functions each configuration will provide. -Configfs (please see Documentation/filesystems/configfs/*) lends itslef nicely +Configfs (please see Documentation/filesystems/configfs/*) lends itself nicely for the purpose of telling the kernel about the above mentioned decision. This document is about how to do it. @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ directories must be created: $ mkdir configs/<name>.<number> where <name> can be any string which is legal in a filesystem and the -<numebr> is the configuration's number, e.g.: +<number> is the configuration's number, e.g.: $ mkdir configs/c.1 @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ from the buffer to the cs), but it is up to the implementer of the two functions to decide what they actually do. typedef struct configured_structure cs; -typedef struc specific_attribute sa; +typedef struct specific_attribute sa; sa +----------------------------------+ diff --git a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX index 5481c8ba3412..a39d06680e1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX @@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ active_mm.txt - An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm. balance - various information on memory balancing. -hugepage-mmap.c - - Example app using huge page memory with the mmap system call. -hugepage-shm.c - - Example app using huge page memory with Sys V shared memory system calls. +cleancache.txt + - Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache. +frontswap.txt + - Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend. +highmem.txt + - Outline of highmem and common issues. hugetlbpage.txt - a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel. hwpoison.txt @@ -16,21 +18,23 @@ ksm.txt - how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature. locking - info on how locking and synchronization is done in the Linux vm code. -map_hugetlb.c - - an example program that uses the MAP_HUGETLB mmap flag. numa - information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm. numa_memory_policy.txt - documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support. overcommit-accounting - description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes. -page-types.c - - Tool for querying page flags page_migration - description of page migration in NUMA systems. pagemap.txt - pagemap, from the userspace perspective slub.txt - a short users guide for SLUB. +soft-dirty.txt + - short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs +transhuge.txt + - Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages. unevictable-lru.txt - Unevictable LRU infrastructure +zswap.txt + - Intro to compressed cache for swap pages diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/arc/kernel/kprobes.c index eb1c2ee5eaf0..42b05046fad9 100644 --- a/arch/arc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/arc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long trapnr) */ /* We increment the nmissed count for accounting, - * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accouting + * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting * these specific fault cases. */ kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur); diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sti/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-sti/Kconfig index 835833e3c4f8..a67f83fd3f78 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mach-sti/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mach-sti/Kconfig @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ config SOC_STIH415 default y help This enables support for STMicroelectronics Digital Consumer - Electronics family StiH415 parts, primarily targetted at set-top-box + Electronics family StiH415 parts, primarily targeted at set-top-box and other digital audio/video applications using Flattned Device Trees. @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ config SOC_STIH416 default y help This enables support for STMicroelectronics Digital Consumer - Electronics family StiH416 parts, primarily targetted at set-top-box + Electronics family StiH416 parts, primarily targeted at set-top-box and other digital audio/video applications using Flattened Device Trees. diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c index f8280a766a78..074fde49c9e6 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr) case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE: /* * We increment the nmissed count for accounting, - * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accouting + * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting * these specific fault cases. */ kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur); diff --git a/arch/m32r/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/m32r/include/asm/mmu_context.h index a979a4198168..9fc78fc44445 100644 --- a/arch/m32r/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/m32r/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static inline void get_new_mmu_context(struct mm_struct *mm) Flush all TLB and start new cycle. */ local_flush_tlb_all(); /* Fix version if needed. - Note that we avoid version #0 to distingush NO_CONTEXT. */ + Note that we avoid version #0 to distinguish NO_CONTEXT. */ if (!mc) mmu_context_cache = mc = MMU_CONTEXT_FIRST_VERSION; } diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-pip.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-pip.h index a76fe5a57a9f..df69bfd2b006 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-pip.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/octeon/cvmx-pip.h @@ -192,13 +192,13 @@ typedef struct { /* Number of packets processed by PIP */ uint32_t packets; /* - * Number of indentified L2 multicast packets. Does not + * Number of identified L2 multicast packets. Does not * include broadcast packets. Only includes packets whose * parse mode is SKIP_TO_L2 */ uint32_t multicast_packets; /* - * Number of indentified L2 broadcast packets. Does not + * Number of identified L2 broadcast packets. Does not * include multicast packets. Only includes packets whose * parse mode is SKIP_TO_L2 */ diff --git a/arch/mn10300/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/mn10300/include/asm/mmu_context.h index c67c2b5365a6..75dbe696f830 100644 --- a/arch/mn10300/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/mn10300/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static inline unsigned long allocate_mmu_context(struct mm_struct *mm) local_flush_tlb_all(); /* fix the TLB version if needed (we avoid version #0 so as to - * distingush MMU_NO_CONTEXT) */ + * distinguish MMU_NO_CONTEXT) */ if (!mc) *pmc = mc = MMU_CONTEXT_FIRST_VERSION; } diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c index 2156ea90eb54..90fab64d911d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr) case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE: /* * We increment the nmissed count for accounting, - * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accouting + * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting * these specific fault cases. */ kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur); diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c index 057fc894be51..7bfaf58d4664 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/nvram.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #define NVRW_CNT 0x20 /* - * Set oops header version to distingush between old and new format header. + * Set oops header version to distinguish between old and new format header. * lnx,oops-log partition max size is 4000, header version > 4000 will * help in identifying new header. */ diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c index 59a9c35c4598..bc71a7b95af5 100644 --- a/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static int __kprobes kprobe_trap_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr) case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE: /* * We increment the nmissed count for accounting, - * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accouting + * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting * these specific fault cases. */ kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(p); diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/mmu_context.h index 21c5088788da..b9d9489a5012 100644 --- a/arch/sh/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static inline void get_mmu_context(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int cpu) /* * Fix version; Note that we avoid version #0 - * to distingush NO_CONTEXT. + * to distinguish NO_CONTEXT. */ if (!asid) asid = MMU_CONTEXT_FIRST_VERSION; diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/kprobes.c index 5a09fd315e5f..1b0973503197 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr) case KPROBE_HIT_SSDONE: /* * We increment the nmissed count for accounting, - * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accouting + * we can also use npre/npostfault count for accounting * these specific fault cases. */ kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(cur); diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c index 3daece79a142..bca023bdd6b2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static void amd_get_topology(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) #endif /* - * On a AMD dual core setup the lower bits of the APIC id distingush the cores. + * On a AMD dual core setup the lower bits of the APIC id distinguish the cores. * Assumes number of cores is a power of two. */ static void amd_detect_cmp(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c index 1414c90feaba..0641113e2965 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* - * Routines to indentify caches on Intel CPU. + * Routines to identify caches on Intel CPU. * * Changes: * Venkatesh Pallipadi : Adding cache identification through cpuid(4) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c index f2cc63e9cf08..b6f794aa1693 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* - * Routines to indentify additional cpu features that are scattered in + * Routines to identify additional cpu features that are scattered in * cpuid space. */ #include <linux/cpu.h> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utobject.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utobject.c index 13e045025c33..517af700399d 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utobject.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utobject.c @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ u8 acpi_ut_valid_internal_object(void *object) default: ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_EXEC, - "%p is not not an ACPI operand obj [%s]\n", + "%p is not an ACPI operand obj [%s]\n", object, acpi_ut_get_descriptor_name(object))); break; } diff --git a/drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c b/drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c index 99802d6f3c60..165c2c299e57 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c +++ b/drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct cma *dma_contiguous_default_area; |