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authorEric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>2016-05-20 16:58:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-20 17:58:30 -0700
commit89474d50a0d6b9a06e043351b4e658f4f0b6ee97 (patch)
treef03600bcd0c9bd59eebda4785d014055ca86dff5 /Documentation
parent0c9ad804f178eae02a34045bb0916fa0e31623d5 (diff)
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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index fb0e1f2a19cc..7c871d6beb63 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work fine as usual.
== 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 ->_mapcount in all subpages on each
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.