Spelling fixes in kernel/.
Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <[email protected]>
---
kernel/acct.c | 2 +-
kernel/compat.c | 2 +-
kernel/cpuset.c | 2 +-
kernel/delayacct.c | 2 +-
kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
kernel/futex.c | 2 +-
kernel/futex_compat.c | 2 +-
kernel/irq/chip.c | 4 ++--
kernel/irq/handle.c | 6 +++---
kernel/irq/manage.c | 2 +-
kernel/irq/migration.c | 2 +-
kernel/irq/resend.c | 2 +-
kernel/kallsyms.c | 2 +-
kernel/kexec.c | 10 +++++-----
kernel/kfifo.c | 2 +-
kernel/kmod.c | 2 +-
kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +-
kernel/kthread.c | 2 +-
kernel/latency.c | 2 +-
kernel/module.c | 2 +-
kernel/posix-timers.c | 4 ++--
kernel/power/snapshot.c | 2 +-
kernel/sched.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
kernel/softirq.c | 2 +-
kernel/taskstats.c | 2 +-
kernel/time.c | 2 +-
kernel/time/clocksource.c | 2 +-
kernel/time/jiffies.c | 2 +-
28 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index 70d0d88..0b0acb2 100644
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
* XTerms and EMACS are manifestations of pure evil. 21/10/98, AV.
*
* Fixed a nasty interaction with with sys_umount(). If the accointing
- * was suspeneded we failed to stop it on umount(). Messy.
+ * was suspended we failed to stop it on umount(). Messy.
* Another one: remount to readonly didn't stop accounting.
* Question: what should we do if we have CAP_SYS_ADMIN but not
* CAP_SYS_PACCT? Current code does the following: umount returns -EBUSY
diff --git a/kernel/compat.c b/kernel/compat.c
index cebb4c2..c5e0c1a 100644
--- a/kernel/compat.c
+++ b/kernel/compat.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
* linux/kernel/compat.c
*
- * Kernel compatibililty routines for e.g. 32 bit syscall support
+ * Kernel compatibility routines for e.g. 32 bit syscall support
* on 64 bit kernels.
*
* Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Stephen Rothwell, IBM Corporation
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index f57854b..35c8c6f 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@ static int update_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf)
*
* Migrate memory region from one set of nodes to another.
*
- * Temporarilly set tasks mems_allowed to target nodes of migration,
+ * Temporarily set tasks mems_allowed to target nodes of migration,
* so that the migration code can allocate pages on these nodes.
*
* Call holding manage_mutex, so our current->cpuset won't change
diff --git a/kernel/delayacct.c b/kernel/delayacct.c
index c0148ae..1fc6316 100644
--- a/kernel/delayacct.c
+++ b/kernel/delayacct.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static inline void delayacct_start(struct timespec *start)
/*
* Finish delay accounting for a statistic using
- * its timestamps (@start, @end), accumalator (@total) and @count
+ * its timestamps (@start, @end), accumulator (@total) and @count
*/
static void delayacct_end(struct timespec *start, struct timespec *end,
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 5dd3979..f9f5ee4 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static struct files_struct *dup_fd(struct files_struct *oldf, int *errorp)
/*
* The fd may be claimed in the fd bitmap but not yet
* instantiated in the files array if a sibling thread
- * is partway through open(). So make sure that this
+ * is part way through open(). So make sure that this
* fd is available to the new process.
*/
FD_CLR(open_files - i, new_fdt->open_fds);
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index b7ce15c..9c1ba51 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ static int futex_wait(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared,
hrtimer_cancel(&t.timer);
- /* Flag if a timeout occured */
+ /* Flag if a timeout occurred */
rem = (t.task == NULL);
}
}
diff --git a/kernel/futex_compat.c b/kernel/futex_compat.c
index 338a9b4..5625c24 100644
--- a/kernel/futex_compat.c
+++ b/kernel/futex_compat.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/*
* linux/kernel/futex_compat.c
*
- * Futex compatibililty routines.
+ * Futex compatibility routines.
*
* Copyright 2006, Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
*/
diff --git a/kernel/irq/chip.c b/kernel/irq/chip.c
index 615ce97..32b4a55 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/chip.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/chip.c
@@ -431,8 +431,8 @@ out:
* @irq: the interrupt number
* @desc: the interrupt description structure for this irq
*
- * Interrupt occures on the falling and/or rising edge of a hardware
- * signal. The occurence is latched into the irq controller hardware
+ * Interrupt occurs on the falling and/or rising edge of a hardware
+ * signal. The occurrence is latched into the irq controller hardware
* and must be acked in order to be reenabled. After the ack another
* interrupt can happen on the same source even before the first one
* is handled by the assosiacted event handler. If this happens it
diff --git a/kernel/irq/handle.c b/kernel/irq/handle.c
index e391cbb..0c684df 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/handle.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/handle.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
* @irq: the interrupt number
* @desc: description of the interrupt
*
- * Handles spurious and unhandled IRQ's. It also prints a debugmessage.
+ * Handles spurious and unhandled IRQs. It also prints a debug message.
*/
void fastcall
handle_bad_irq(unsigned int irq, struct irq_desc *desc)
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ struct irq_desc irq_desc[NR_IRQS] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp = {
/*
* What should we do if we get a hw irq event on an illegal vector?
- * Each architecture has to answer this themself.
+ * Each architecture has to answer this itself.
*/
static void ack_bad(unsigned int irq)
{
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ irqreturn_t handle_IRQ_event(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *action)
* __do_IRQ - original all in one highlevel IRQ handler
* @irq: the interrupt number
*
- * __do_IRQ handles all normal device IRQ's (the special
+ * __do_IRQ handles all normal device IRQs (the special
* SMP cross-CPU interrupts have their own specific
* handlers).
*
diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 203a518..d3a665e 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ int can_request_irq(unsigned int irq, unsigned long irqflags)
void compat_irq_chip_set_default_handler(struct irq_desc *desc)
{
/*
- * If the architecture still has not overriden
+ * If the architecture still has not overridden
* the flow handler then zap the default. This
* should catch incorrect flow-type setting.
*/
diff --git a/kernel/irq/migration.c b/kernel/irq/migration.c
index 77b7acc..20d5fb6 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/migration.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/migration.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ void move_masked_irq(int irq)
* do the disable, re-program, enable sequence.
* This is *not* particularly important for level triggered
* but in a edge trigger case, we might be setting rte
- * when an active trigger is comming in. This could
+ * when an active trigger is coming in. This could
* cause some ioapics to mal-function.
* Being paranoid i guess!
*
diff --git a/kernel/irq/resend.c b/kernel/irq/resend.c
index 5bfeaed..e331ec7 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/resend.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/resend.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
static DECLARE_BITMAP(irqs_resend, NR_IRQS);
/*
- * Run software resends of IRQ's
+ * Run software resends of IRQs
*/
static void resend_irqs(unsigned long arg)
{
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index f1bda23..9325657 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static unsigned int kallsyms_expand_symbol(unsigned int off, char *result)
}
/* get symbol type information. This is encoded as a single char at the
- * begining of the symbol name */
+ * beginning of the symbol name */
static char kallsyms_get_symbol_type(unsigned int off)
{
/* get just the first code, look it up in the token table, and return the
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 25db14b..71d2bed 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ static int do_kimage_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
* just verifies it is an address we can use.
*
* Since the kernel does everything in page size chunks ensure
- * the destination addreses are page aligned. Too many
+ * the destination addresses are page aligned. Too many
* special cases crop of when we don't do this. The most
* insidious is getting overlapping destination addresses
* simply because addresses are changed to page size
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static int do_kimage_alloc(struct kimage **rimage, unsigned long entry,
}
/* Verify our destination addresses do not overlap.
- * If we alloed overlapping destination addresses
+ * If we allowed overlapping destination addresses
* through very weird things can happen with no
* easy explanation as one segment stops on another.
*/
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_normal_control_pages(struct kimage *image,
/* Deal with the destination pages I have inadvertently allocated.
*
* Ideally I would convert multi-page allocations into single
- * page allocations, and add everyting to image->dest_pages.
+ * page allocations, and add everything to image->dest_pages.
*
* For now it is simpler to just free the pages.
*/
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_crash_control_pages(struct kimage *image,
* not conflict with either the destination addresses
* or memory the kernel is already using.
*
- * Control pages are also the only pags we must allocate
+ * Control pages are also the only pages we must allocate
* when loading a crash kernel. All of the other pages
* are specified by the segments and we just memcpy
* into them directly.
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ static struct page *kimage_alloc_page(struct kimage *image,
break;
/*
- * I know that the page is someones destination page.
+ * I know that the page is someone's destination page.
* See if there is already a source page for this
* destination page. And if so swap the source pages.
*/
diff --git a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c
index cee4191..65e5eaa 100644
--- a/kernel/kfifo.c
+++ b/kernel/kfifo.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ struct kfifo *kfifo_alloc(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask, spinlock_t *lock)
/*
* round up to the next power of 2, since our 'let the indices
- * wrap' tachnique works only in this case.
+ * wrap' technique works only in this case.
*/
if (size & (size - 1)) {
BUG_ON(size > 0x80000000);
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 4d32eb0..c3810ba 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe";
/**
* request_module - try to load a kernel module
* @fmt: printf style format string for the name of the module
- * @varargs: arguements as specified in the format string
+ * @varargs: arguments as specified in the format string
*
* Load a module using the user mode module loader. The function returns
* zero on success or a negative errno code on failure. Note that a
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 9e47d8c..bf2faec 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ static int __kprobes __register_kprobe(struct kprobe *p,
if (probed_mod) {
struct module *calling_mod = module_text_address(called_from);
/*
- * We must allow modules to probe themself and in this case
+ * We must allow modules to probe themselves and in this case
* avoid incrementing the module refcount, so as to allow
* unloading of self probing modules.
*/
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index df8a8e8..cc2d5fd 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ struct kthread_stop_info
struct completion done;
};
-/* Thread stopping is done by setthing this var: lock serializes
+/* Thread stopping is done by setting this var: lock serializes
* multiple kthread_stop calls. */
static DEFINE_MUTEX(kthread_stop_lock);
static struct kthread_stop_info kthread_stop_info;
diff --git a/kernel/latency.c b/kernel/latency.c
index e63fcac..132b858 100644
--- a/kernel/latency.c
+++ b/kernel/latency.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
* constraint of, say, 150 usec.
*
* Multiple drivers can each announce their maximum accepted latency,
- * to keep these appart, a string based identifier is used.
+ * to keep these apart, a string based identifier is used.
*
*
* (C) Copyright 2006 Intel Corporation
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 9bd93de..b5b59ba 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2075,7 +2075,7 @@ static const char *get_ksymbol(struct module *mod,
else
nextval = (unsigned long)mod->module_core+mod->core_text_size;
- /* Scan for closest preceeding symbol, and next symbol. (ELF
+ /* Scan for closest preceding symbol, and next symbol. (ELF
starts real symbols at 1). */
for (i = 1; i < mod->num_symtab; i++) {
if (mod->symtab[i].st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF)
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index 588c99d..9c2f8d7 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static void schedule_next_timer(struct k_itimer *timr)
* restarted (i.e. we have flagged this in the sys_private entry of the
* info block).
*
- * To protect aginst the timer going away while the interrupt is queued,
+ * To protect against the timer going away while the interrupt is queued,
* we require that the it_requeue_pending flag be set.
*/
void do_schedule_next_timer(struct siginfo *info)
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ sys_timer_create(const clockid_t which_clock,
goto retry;
else if (error) {
/*
- * Wierd looking, but we return EAGAIN if the IDR is
+ * Weird looking, but we return EAGAIN if the IDR is
* full (proper POSIX return value for this)
*/
error = -EAGAIN;
diff --git a/kernel/power/snapshot.c b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
index a3b7854..4cdea28 100644
--- a/kernel/power/snapshot.c
+++ b/kernel/power/snapshot.c
@@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ static unsigned int nr_meta_pages;
/**
* swsusp_free - free pages allocated for the suspend.
*
- * Suspend pages are alocated before the atomic copy is made, so we
+ * Suspend pages are allocated before the atomic copy is made, so we
* need to release them after the resume.
*/
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 799d23b..83ccea8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@ static int wake_idle(int cpu, struct task_struct *p)
* Siblings must be also busy(in most cases) as they didn't already
* pickup the extra load from this cpu and hence we need not check
* sibling runqueue info. This will avoid the checks and cache miss
- * penalities associated with that.
+ * penalties associated with that.
*/
if (idle_cpu(cpu) || cpu_rq(cpu)->nr_running > 1)
return cpu;
@@ -4363,7 +4363,7 @@ recheck:
*/
spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
/*
- * To be able to change p->policy safely, the apropriate
+ * To be able to change p->policy safely, the appropriate
* runqueue lock must be held.
*/
rq = __task_rq_lock(p);
@@ -4589,9 +4589,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
}
/*
- * Represents all cpu's present in the system
+ * Represents all CPUs present in the system
* In systems capable of hotplug, this map could dynamically grow
- * as new cpu's are detected in the system via any platform specific
+ * as new CPUs are detected in the system via any platform specific
* method, such as ACPI for e.g.
*/
@@ -4973,7 +4973,7 @@ void show_state_filter(unsigned long state_filter)
do_each_thread(g, p) {
/*
* reset the NMI-timeout, listing all files on a slow
- * console might take alot of time:
+ * console might take a lot of time:
*/
touch_nmi_watchdog();
if (!state_filter || (p->state & state_filter))
@@ -5039,8 +5039,8 @@ cpumask_t nohz_cpu_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE;
/*
* This is how migration works:
*
- * 1) we queue a struct migration_req structure in the source CPU's
- * runqueue and wake up that CPU's migration thread.
+ * 1) we queue a struct migration_req structure in the source CPUs
+ * runqueue and wake up that CPUs migration thread.
* 2) we down() the locked semaphore => thread blocks.
* 3) migration thread wakes up (implicitly it forces the migrated
* thread off the CPU)
@@ -5255,7 +5255,7 @@ restart:
* While a dead CPU has no uninterruptible tasks queued at this point,
* it might still have a nonzero ->nr_uninterruptible counter, because
* for performance reasons the counter is not stricly tracking tasks to
- * their home CPUs. So we just add the counter to another CPU's counter,
+ * their home CPUs. So we just add the counter to another CPUs counter,
* to keep the global sum constant after CPU-down:
*/
static void migrate_nr_uninterruptible(struct rq *rq_src)
@@ -5443,7 +5443,7 @@ migration_call(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
/* No need to migrate the tasks: it was best-effort if
* they didn't take sched_hotcpu_mutex. Just wake up
- * the requestors. */
+ * the requesters. */
spin_lock_irq(&rq->lock);
while (!list_empty(&rq->migration_queue)) {
struct migration_req *req;
@@ -7132,7 +7132,7 @@ struct task_struct *curr_task(int cpu)
* Description: This function must only be used when non-maskable interrupts
* are serviced on a separate stack. It allows the architecture to switch the
* notion of the current task on a cpu in a non-blocking manner. This function
- * must be called with all CPU's synchronized, and interrupts disabled, the
+ * must be called with all CPUs synchronized, and interrupts disabled, the
* and caller must save the original value of the current task (see
* curr_task() above) and restore that value before reenabling interrupts and
* re-starting the system.
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 0b9886a..50a22ed 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ static int __cpuinit cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb,
case CPU_UP_CANCELED_FROZEN:
if (!per_cpu(ksoftirqd, hotcpu))
break;
- /* Unbind so it can run. Fall thru. */
+ /* Unbind so it can run. Fall through. */
kthread_bind(per_cpu(ksoftirqd, hotcpu),
any_online_cpu(cpu_online_map));
case CPU_DEAD:
diff --git a/kernel/taskstats.c b/kernel/taskstats.c
index 906cae7..756342f 100644
--- a/kernel/taskstats.c
+++ b/kernel/taskstats.c
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static void fill_tgid_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
/*
* Each accounting subsystem calls its functions here to
- * accumalate its per-task stats for tsk, into the per-tgid structure
+ * accumulate its per-task stats for tsk, into the per-tgid structure
*
* per-task-foo(tsk->signal->stats, tsk);
*/
diff --git a/kernel/time.c b/kernel/time.c
index f04791f..cc52b4c 100644
--- a/kernel/time.c
+++ b/kernel/time.c
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(usecs_to_jiffies);
/*
* The TICK_NSEC - 1 rounds up the value to the next resolution. Note
* that a remainder subtract here would not do the right thing as the
- * resolution values don't fall on second boundries. I.e. the line:
+ * resolution values don't fall on second boundaries. I.e. the line:
* nsec -= nsec % TICK_NSEC; is NOT a correct resolution rounding.
*
* Rather, we just shift the bits off the right.
diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index 3db5c3c..c3085c4 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ sysfs_show_current_clocksources(struct sys_device *dev, char *buf)
* @count: length of buffer
*
* Takes input from sysfs interface for manually overriding the default
- * clocksource selction.
+ * clocksource selection.
*/
static ssize_t sysfs_override_clocksource(struct sys_device *dev,
const char *buf, size_t count)
diff --git a/kernel/time/jiffies.c b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
index 4c256fd..70d958a 100644
--- a/kernel/time/jiffies.c
+++ b/kernel/time/jiffies.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
* the timer interrupt frequency HZ and it suffers
* inaccuracies caused by missed or lost timer
* interrupts and the inability for the timer
- * interrupt hardware to accuratly tick at the
+ * interrupt hardware to accurately tick at the
* requested HZ value. It is also not reccomended
* for "tick-less" systems.
*/
--
1.5.0.1
--
Simon Arlott
* Simon Arlott <[email protected]> wrote:
> kernel/sched.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> * This is how migration works:
> *
> - * 1) we queue a struct migration_req structure in the source CPU's
> - * runqueue and wake up that CPU's migration thread.
> + * 1) we queue a struct migration_req structure in the source CPUs
> + * runqueue and wake up that CPUs migration thread.
the original is correct - this is a possessive form.
> - * their home CPUs. So we just add the counter to another CPU's counter,
> + * their home CPUs. So we just add the counter to another CPUs counter,
ditto.
all the other spelling fixes to sched.c are fine, thanks!
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Ingo
On 11/05/07 21:01, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Simon Arlott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> kernel/sched.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
>
>> --- a/kernel/sched.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
>
>> * This is how migration works:
>> *
>> - * 1) we queue a struct migration_req structure in the source CPU's
>> - * runqueue and wake up that CPU's migration thread.
>> + * 1) we queue a struct migration_req structure in the source CPUs
>> + * runqueue and wake up that CPUs migration thread.
>
> the original is correct - this is a possessive form.
Sorry, I converted so many "TLA's" that by the end I probably wasn't paying
as much attention to them as I should have.
>> - * their home CPUs. So we just add the counter to another CPU's counter,
>> + * their home CPUs. So we just add the counter to another CPUs counter,
>
> ditto.
>
> all the other spelling fixes to sched.c are fine, thanks!
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
>
> Ingo
--
Simon Arlott