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Re: [PATCH 39/41] Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes

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On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:46:07 -0600 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 07:31:43 -0600
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:37:05 +0100
> > Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> wrote:
> > 
> > >  Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 6 +++---
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)  
> > 
> > Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
> 
> Actually, I've just unapplied this one; it conflicts against changes in
> Andrew's tree and, thus, linux-next.  Andrew, maybe you'd like to take it
> on top of what you have now?

Sure.

That Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt paragraph isn't in great shape so
I gave it some extra help.


From: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Subject: Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff -puN Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt~documentation-vm-fix-spelling-mistakes Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt~documentation-vm-fix-spelling-mistakes
+++ a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work
 
 == Graceful fallback ==
 
-Code walking pagetables but unware about huge pmds can simply call
+Code walking pagetables but unaware about huge pmds can simply call
 split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr) where the pmd is the one returned by
 pmd_offset. It's trivial to make the code transparent hugepage aware
 by just grepping for "pmd_offset" and adding split_huge_pmd where
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ tracking. The alternative is alter ->_ma
 map/unmap of the whole compound page.
 
 We set PG_double_map when a PMD of the page got split for the first time,
-but still have PMD mapping. The addtional references go away with last
+but still have PMD mapping. The additional references go away with last
 compound_mapcount.
 
 split_huge_page internally has to distribute the refcounts in the head
@@ -432,10 +432,10 @@ page->_mapcount.
 We safe against physical memory scanners too: the only legitimate way
 scanner can get reference to a page is get_page_unless_zero().
 
-All tail pages has zero ->_refcount until atomic_add(). It prevent scanner
-from geting reference to tail page up to the point. After the atomic_add()
-we don't care about ->_refcount value.  We already known how many references
-with should uncharge from head page.
+All tail pages have zero ->_refcount until atomic_add(). This prevents the
+scanner from getting a reference to the tail page up to that point. After the
+atomic_add() we don't care about the ->_refcount value.  We already known how
+many references should be uncharged from the head page.
 
 For head page get_page_unless_zero() will succeed and we don't mind. It's
 clear where reference should go after split: it will stay on head page.
_

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[PATCH 00/41] Documentation: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCH 17/41] Documentation: dt: mtd: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 17/41] Documentation: dt: mtd: fix spelling mistake Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 16:00 +0200
  [PATCH 16/41] Documentation: dt: mmc: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 16/41] Documentation: dt: mmc: fix spelling mistake Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 16:00 +0200
  [PATCH 01/41] Documentation: debugfs: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCH 15/41] Documentation: dt: mfd: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 15/41] Documentation: dt: mfd: fix spelling mistakes Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 16:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 15/41] Documentation: dt: mfd: fix spelling mistakes Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-04-25 19:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 15/41] Documentation: dt: mfd: fix spelling mistakes Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 01:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 15/41] Documentation: dt: mfd: fix spelling mistakes Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-04-26 08:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 15/41] Documentation: dt: mfd: fix spelling mistakes Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 15:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 15/41] Documentation: dt: mfd: fix spelling mistakes Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-04-26 16:00 +0200
  [PATCH 07/41] Documentation: dt: arc: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 07/41] Documentation: dt: arc: fix spelling mistakes Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> - 2016-04-25 11:00 +0200
  [PATCH 11/41] Documentation: dt: dma: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 11/41] Documentation: dt: dma: fix spelling mistake Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 16:00 +0200
  [PATCH 06/41] Documentation: device-mapper: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
  [PATCH 18/41] Documentation: dt: net: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 18/41] Documentation: dt: net: fix spelling mistakes Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 16:00 +0200
  [PATCH 14/41] Documentation: dt: media: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 14/41] Documentation: dt: media: fix spelling mistake Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 16:00 +0200
  [PATCH 23/41] Documentation: DocBook: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:40 +0200
  [PATCH 22/41] Documentation: dt: soc: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 22/41] Documentation: dt: soc: fix spelling mistakes Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 16:00 +0200
  [PATCH 26/41] Documentation: kasan: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 26/41] Documentation: kasan: fix spelling mistake Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-04-25 05:10 +0200
  [PATCH 21/41] Documentation: dt: power: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 21/41] Documentation: dt: power: fix spelling mistake Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-04-25 16:00 +0200
  [PATCH 24/41] Documentation: fb: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 24/41] Documentation: fb: fix spelling mistakes Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> - 2016-05-10 11:10 +0200
  [PATCH 25/41] Documentation: filesystems: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 02:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 25/41] Documentation: filesystems: fix spelling mistakes Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 04:20 +0200
  [PATCH 41/41] Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 41/41] Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH 28/41] Documentation: locking: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
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  [PATCH 37/41] Documentation: video4linux: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
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    Re: [PATCH 34/41] Documentation: robust-futexes: fix spelling  mistakes Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:30 +0200
  [PATCH 30/41] Documentation: networking: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 30/41] Documentation: networking: fix spelling mistakes David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-04-28 20:30 +0200
  [PATCH 40/41] Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 40/41] Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:40 +0200
  [PATCH 27/41] Documentation: laptops: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
    [PATCH 33/41] Documentation: RCU: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 33/41] Documentation: RCU: fix spelling mistake Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2016-04-25 09:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 33/41] Documentation: RCU: fix spelling mistake "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-04-25 19:20 +0200
    [PATCH 36/41] Documentation: sound: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 36/41] Documentation: sound: fix spelling mistakes Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2016-04-25 10:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 36/41] Documentation: sound: fix spelling mistakes Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> - 2016-04-25 11:00 +0200
    [PATCH 39/41] Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 39/41] Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 39/41] Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 39/41] Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-04-28 21:20 +0200
    [PATCH 35/41] Documentation: scsi: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 35/41] Documentation: scsi: fix spelling mistakes Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:40 +0200
    [PATCH 38/41] Documentation: virtual: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 38/41] Documentation: virtual: fix spelling mistake Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> - 2016-04-25 14:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 38/41] Documentation: virtual: fix spelling mistake Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> - 2016-04-25 17:10 +0200
    [PATCH 31/41] Documentation: power: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 31/41] Documentation: power: fix spelling mistake Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-04-25 08:50 +0200
    [PATCH 29/41] Documentation: lzo: fix spelling mistakes Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 29/41] Documentation: lzo: fix spelling mistakes Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:30 +0200
    [PATCH 32/41] Documentation: pps: fix spelling mistake Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> - 2016-04-25 08:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 32/41] Documentation: pps: fix spelling mistake Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 32/41] Documentation: pps: fix spelling mistake Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 27/41] Documentation: laptops: fix spelling mistake Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-04-28 15:30 +0200

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