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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-20 21:12:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-20 21:12:50 -0700
commit69a7aebcf019ab3ff5764525ad6858fbe23bb86d (patch)
tree7211df5704b743a7667159748c670a9744164482 /Documentation/virtual
parentd464c92b5234227c1698862a1906827e2e398ae0 (diff)
parentf1f996b66cc3908a8f5ffccc2ff41840e92f3b10 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of typo fixes from Masanari. There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits) kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c" init: fix wording error in mm_init comment usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different' Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c" writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c" Doc: Update numastat.txt qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages compiler.h: Fix typo security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe() mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt8
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
index 5dc972c09b55..fa5f1dbc6b23 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ To instantiate a large spte, four constraints must be satisfied:
- the spte must point to a large host page
- the guest pte must be a large pte of at least equivalent size (if tdp is
- enabled, there is no guest pte and this condition is satisified)
+ enabled, there is no guest pte and this condition is satisfied)
- if the spte will be writeable, the large page frame may not overlap any
write-protected pages
- the guest page must be wholly contained by a single memory slot
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ To check the last two conditions, the mmu maintains a ->write_count set of
arrays for each memory slot and large page size. Every write protected page
causes its write_count to be incremented, thus preventing instantiation of
a large spte. The frames at the end of an unaligned memory slot have
-artificically inflated ->write_counts so they can never be instantiated.
+artificially inflated ->write_counts so they can never be instantiated.
Further reading
===============
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt
index a350ae135b8c..da094737e2f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ segmentation, if both guests are amenable.
Packets are transmitted by placing them in the transmitq, and
buffers for incoming packets are placed in the receiveq. In each
-case, the packet itself is preceeded by a header:
+case, the packet itself is preceded by a header:
struct virtio_net_hdr {
@@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac {
The device can filter incoming packets by any number of
destination MAC addresses.[footnote:
-Since there are no guarentees, it can use a hash filter
+Since there are no guarantees, it can use a hash filter
orsilently switch to allmulti or promiscuous mode if it is given
too many addresses.
] This table is set using the class VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC and the
@@ -1805,7 +1805,7 @@ the FLUSH and FLUSH_OUT types are equivalent, the device does not
distinguish between them
]). If the device has VIRTIO_BLK_F_BARRIER feature the high bit
(VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER) indicates that this request acts as a
-barrier and that all preceeding requests must be complete before
+barrier and that all preceding requests must be complete before
this one, and all following requests must not be started until
this is complete. Note that a barrier does not flush caches in
the underlying backend device in host, and thus does not serve as
@@ -2118,7 +2118,7 @@ This is historical, and independent of the guest page size
Otherwise, the guest may begin to re-use pages previously given
to the balloon before the device has acknowledged their
- withdrawl. [footnote:
+ withdrawal. [footnote:
In this case, deflation advice is merely a courtesy
]