diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst index 3ab4f7756a6e..4e6f504474ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ journal_watermark:number commit_time:number Commit time in milliseconds. When this time passes, the journal is - written. The journal is also written immediatelly if the FLUSH + written. The journal is also written immediately if the FLUSH request is received. internal_hash:algorithm(:key) (the key is optional) @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ journal_crypt:algorithm(:key) (the key is optional) "salsa20" or "ctr(aes)"). The journal contains history of last writes to the block device, - an attacker reading the journal could see the last sector nubmers + an attacker reading the journal could see the last sector numbers that were written. From the sector numbers, the attacker can infer the size of files that were written. To protect against this situation, you can encrypt the journal. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst index 7ef9fe63b3d4..bb17e26e3c1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst @@ -418,6 +418,6 @@ Version History specific devices are requested via rebuild. Fix RAID leg rebuild errors. 1.15.0 Fix size extensions not being synchronized in case of new MD bitmap - pages allocated; also fix those not occuring after previous reductions + pages allocated; also fix those not occurring after previous reductions 1.15.1 Fix argument count and arguments for rebuild/write_mostly/journal_(dev|mode) on the status line. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.rst index e635041351bc..0fac051caeac 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.rst @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The dm-zoned implementation is simple and minimizes system overhead (CPU and memory usage as well as storage capacity loss). For a 10TB host-managed disk with 256 MB zones, dm-zoned memory usage per disk instance is at most 4.5 MB and as little as 5 zones will be used -internally for storing metadata and performaing reclaim operations. +internally for storing metadata and performing reclaim operations. dm-zoned target devices are formatted and checked using the dmzadm utility available at: @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ the buffer zone assigned. If the accessed chunk has no mapping, or the accessed blocks are invalid, the read buffer is zeroed and the read operation terminated. -After some time, the limited number of convnetional zones available may +After some time, the limited number of conventional zones available may be exhausted (all used to map chunks or buffer sequential zones) and unaligned writes to unbuffered chunks become impossible. To avoid this situation, a reclaim process regularly scans used conventional zones and @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Ex:: dmzadm --format /dev/sdxx /dev/sdyy -Fomatted device(s) can be started with the dmzadm utility, too.: +Formatted device(s) can be started with the dmzadm utility, too.: Ex:: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst index 66f71f0dab1b..8c50e5c96ee1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Construction Parameters <#opt_params> Number of optional parameters. If there are no optional parameters, - the optional paramaters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero. + the optional parameters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero. Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments. Example of optional parameters section: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/writecache.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/writecache.rst index d3d7690f5e8d..dce0184e07ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/writecache.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/writecache.rst @@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ Constructor parameters: autocommit_blocks n (default: 64 for pmem, 65536 for ssd) when the application writes this amount of blocks without issuing the FLUSH request, the blocks are automatically - commited + committed autocommit_time ms (default: 1000) autocommit time in milliseconds. The data is automatically - commited if this time passes and no FLUSH request is + committed if this time passes and no FLUSH request is received fua (by default on) applicable only to persistent memory - use the FUA flag diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst index 68d96f0e9c95..76673affd917 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Hyper-Thread attacks are possible. The victim of a malicious actor does not need to make use of TSX. Only the attacker needs to begin a TSX transaction and raise an asynchronous abort -which in turn potenitally leaks data stored in the buffers. +which in turn potentially leaks data stored in the buffers. More detailed technical information is available in the TAA specific x86 architecture section: :ref:`Documentation/x86/tsx_async_abort.rst `. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst index cc8781b96b4d..d8fc9a59c086 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ All md devices contain: layout The ``layout`` for the array for the particular level. This is - simply a number that is interpretted differently by different + simply a number that is interpreted differently by different levels. It can be written while assembling an array. array_size diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst index 49382377b1dc..0ef1f203104d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ the Subsystem ID in the second line, looks like this: only bt878-based cards can have a subsystem ID (which does not mean that every card really has one). bt848 cards can't have a Subsystem ID and therefore can't be autodetected. There is a list with the ID's -at :doc:`bttv-cardlist` (in case you are intrested or want to mail +at :doc:`bttv-cardlist` (in case you are interested or want to mail patches with updates). diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/dvb_references.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/dvb_references.rst index 48445ac76275..4f0fd4259cfa 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/dvb_references.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/dvb_references.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The DVB mailing list linux-dvb is hosted at vger. Please see http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media for details. There are also some other old lists hosted at: -https://linuxtv.org/lists.php. If you're insterested on that for historic +https://linuxtv.org/lists.php. If you're interested on that for historic reasons, please check the archive at https://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/. The media subsystem Wiki is hosted at https://linuxtv.org/wiki/. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/frontend-cardlist.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/frontend-cardlist.rst index 73a248c1b064..ba5b7c69a978 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/frontend-cardlist.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/frontend-cardlist.rst @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ cx24116 Conexant CX24116 based cx24117 Conexant CX24117 based cx24120 Conexant CX24120 based cx24123 Conexant CX24123 based -ds3000 Montage Tehnology DS3000 based +ds3000 Montage Technology DS3000 based mb86a16 Fujitsu MB86A16 based mt312 Zarlink VP310/MT312/ZL10313 based s5h1420 Samsung S5H1420 based @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ tda10086 Philips TDA10086 based tda8083 Philips TDA8083 based tda8261 Philips TDA8261 based tda826x Philips TDA826X silicon tuner -ts2020 Montage Tehnology TS2020 based tuners +ts2020 Montage Technology TS2020 based tuners tua6100 Infineon TUA6100 PLL cx24113 Conexant CX24113/CX24128 tuner for DVB-S/DSS itd1000 Integrant ITD1000 Zero IF tuner for DVB-S/DSS diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/gspca-cardlist.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/gspca-cardlist.rst index adda933616f1..e3404d1589da 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/gspca-cardlist.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/gspca-cardlist.rst @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ pac7302 093a:2625 Genius iSlim 310 pac7302 093a:2626 Labtec 2200 pac7302 093a:2627 Genius FaceCam 300 pac7302 093a:2628 Genius iLook 300 -pac7302 093a:2629 Genious iSlim 300 +pac7302 093a:2629 Genius iSlim 300 pac7302 093a:262a Webcam 300k pac7302 093a:262c Philips SPC 230 NC jl2005bcd 0979:0227 Various brands, 19 known cameras supported diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/ipu3.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/ipu3.rst index 07d139bf8459..f59697c7b374 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/ipu3.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/ipu3.rst @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ raw Bayer format that is specific to IPU3. Let us take the example of ov5670 sensor connected to CSI2 port 0, for a 2592x1944 image capture. -Using the media contorller APIs, the ov5670 sensor is configured to send +Using the media controller APIs, the ov5670 sensor is configured to send frames in packed raw Bayer format to IPU3 CSI2 receiver. .. code-block:: none @@ -313,8 +313,8 @@ configuration steps of 0.03125 (1/32). **Geometric Distortion Correction** -Geometric Distortion Correction is used to performe correction of distortions -and image filtering. It needs some extra filter and envelop padding pixels to +Geometric Distortion Correction is used to perform correction of distortions +and image filtering. It needs some extra filter and envelope padding pixels to work, so the input resolution of GDC should be larger than the output resolution. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/remote-controller.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/remote-controller.rst index fa05410c3cd5..188944b00f4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/remote-controller.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/remote-controller.rst @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Using without lircd Xorg recognizes several IR keycodes that have its numerical value lower than 247. With the advent of Wayland, the input driver got updated too, -and should now accept all keycodes. Yet, you may want to just reasign +and should now accept all keycodes. Yet, you may want to just reassign the keycodes to something that your favorite media application likes. This can be done by setting diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index cd727cfc1b04..4b14d8b50e9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ Memory Management ================= Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies, -for managing the memory in the system. This includes implemnetation of +for managing the memory in the system. This includes implementation of virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel -internal structures and user space programms, mapping of files into +internal structures and user space programs, mapping of files into processes address space and many other cool things. Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst index 86f2a3c4b638..c2f826409bf0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ memory node's access class 0 initiators as follows:: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeY/access0/initiators/ These attributes apply only when accessed from nodes that have the -are linked under the this access's inititiators. +are linked under the this access's initiators. The performance characteristics the kernel provides for the local initiators are exported are as follows:: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst index 1dc2d5f823b4..65eefa66c0ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Notes: you must provide some kind of page in your thread after reading from the uffd. You must provide either ``UFFDIO_COPY`` or ``UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE``. The normal behavior of the OS automatically providing a zero page on - an annonymous mmaping is not in place. + an anonymous mmaping is not in place. - None of the page-delivering ioctls default to the range that you registered with. You must fill in all fields for the appropriate diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst index f8b584179cff..7d7c7c8a545c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ This has a number of options available: certificate and a private key. If the PEM file containing the private key is encrypted, or if the - PKCS#11 token requries a PIN, this can be provided at build time by + PKCS#11 token requires a PIN, this can be provided at build time by means of the ``KBUILD_SIGN_PIN`` variable. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst index f05f56c73b7d..90926d0fb8ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Freescale i.MX8 DDR Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) There are no performance counters inside the DRAM controller, so performance signals are brought out to the edge of the controller where a set of 4 x 32 bit -counters is implemented. This is controlled by the CSV modes programed in counter +counters is implemented. This is controlled by the CSV modes programmed in counter control register which causes a large number of PERF signals to be generated. Selection of the value for each counter is done via the config registers. There diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel-speed-select.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel-speed-select.rst index 219f1359aac7..0a1fbdb54bfe 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel-speed-select.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel-speed-select.rst @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ To get help on a command, another level of help is provided. For example for the Summary of platform capability ------------------------------ -To check the current platform and driver capaibilities, execute:: +To check the current platform and driver capabilities, execute:: #intel-speed-select --info @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ If -a option is not used, then the following steps are required before enabling Intel(R) SST-BF: - Discover Intel(R) SST-BF and note low and high priority base frequency -- Note the high prioity CPU list +- Note the high priority CPU list - Enable CLOS using core-power feature set - Configure CLOS parameters. Use CLOS.min to set to minimum performance - Subscribe desired CPUs to CLOS groups diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst index 5072e7064d13..df29b4f1f219 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Operation Modes ``intel_pstate`` can operate in two different modes, active or passive. In the active mode, it uses its own internal performance scaling governor algorithm or -allows the hardware to do preformance scaling by itself, while in the passive +allows the hardware to do performance scaling by itself, while in the passive mode it responds to requests made by a generic ``CPUFreq`` governor implementing a certain performance scaling algorithm. Which of them will be in effect depends on what kernel command line options are used and on the capabilities of @@ -380,13 +380,13 @@ argument is passed to the kernel in the command line. ``no_turbo`` If set (equal to 1), the driver is not allowed to set any turbo P-states - (see `Turbo P-states Support`_). If unset (equalt to 0, which is the + (see `Turbo P-states Support`_). If unset (equal to 0, which is the default), turbo P-states can be set by the driver. [Note that ``intel_pstate`` does not support the general ``boost`` attribute (supported by some other scaling drivers) which is replaced by this one.] - This attrubute does not affect the maximum supported frequency value + This attribute does not affect the maximum supported frequency value supplied to the ``CPUFreq`` core and exposed via the policy interface, but it affects the maximum possible value of per-policy P-state limits (see `Interpretation of Policy Attributes`_ below for details). diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst index a60a96218ba9..b0a1ae7df13b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ and type of the memory area are set using three variables: * ``mem_address`` for the start * ``mem_size`` for the size. The memory size will be rounded down to a power of two. - * ``mem_type`` to specifiy if the memory type (default is pgprot_writecombine). + * ``mem_type`` to specify if the memory type (default is pgprot_writecombine). Typically the default value of ``mem_type=0`` should be used as that sets the pstore mapping to pgprot_writecombine. Setting ``mem_type=1`` attempts to use diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst index ac87eafdb54f..77b1d1b2ad42 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ vsyscall32 (x86) Determines whether the kernels maps a vDSO page into 32-bit processes; can be set to 1 to enable, or 0 to disable. Defaults to enabled if -``CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO`` is set, disabled otherwide. +``CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO`` is set, disabled otherwise. This controls the same setting as the ``vdso32`` kernel boot parameter. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 7d53146798c0..d7a17859adbd 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ The default value is 127. perf_event_mlock_kb =================== -Control size of per-cpu ring buffer not counted agains mlock limit. +Control size of per-cpu ring buffer not counted against mlock limit. The default value is 512 + 1 page diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index f455fa00c00f..e0cf17ad2ae5 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ This should be used on systems where stalls for minor page faults are an acceptable trade for large contiguous free memory. Set to 0 to prevent compaction from moving pages that are unevictable. Default value is 1. On CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT the default value is 0 in order to avoid a page fault, due -to compaction, which would block the task from becomming active until the fault +to compaction, which would block the task from becoming active until the fault is resolved.