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authorLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>2011-03-30 22:57:33 -0300
committerLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>2011-03-31 11:26:23 -0300
commit25985edcedea6396277003854657b5f3cb31a628 (patch)
treef026e810210a2ee7290caeb737c23cb6472b7c38 /Documentation/vm
parent6aba74f2791287ec407e0f92487a725a25908067 (diff)
Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/active_mm.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting2
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/active_mm.txt b/Documentation/vm/active_mm.txt
index 4ee1f643d897..dbf45817405f 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/active_mm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/active_mm.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ we have a user context", and is generally done by the page fault handler
and things like that).
Anyway, I put a pre-patch-2.3.13-1 on ftp.kernel.org just a moment ago,
-because it slightly changes the interfaces to accomodate the alpha (who
+because it slightly changes the interfaces to accommodate the alpha (who
would have thought it, but the alpha actually ends up having one of the
ugliest context switch codes - unlike the other architectures where the MM
and register state is separate, the alpha PALcode joins the two, and you
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
index 457634c1e03e..f8551b3879f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ number of huge pages requested. This is the most reliable method of
allocating huge pages as memory has not yet become fragmented.
Some platforms support multiple huge page sizes. To allocate huge pages
-of a specific size, one must preceed the huge pages boot command parameters
+of a specific size, one must precede the huge pages boot command parameters
with a huge page size selection parameter "hugepagesz=<size>". <size> must
be specified in bytes with optional scale suffix [kKmMgG]. The default huge
page size may be selected with the "default_hugepagesz=<size>" boot parameter.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
index 21c7b1f8f32b..706d7ed9d8d2 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
+++ b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes
address space are refused. Used for a typical system. It
ensures a seriously wild allocation fails while allowing
overcommit to reduce swap usage. root is allowed to
- allocate slighly more memory in this mode. This is the
+ allocate slightly more memory in this mode. This is the
default.
1 - Always overcommit. Appropriate for some scientific