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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Fix typos in comments
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On 3/21/21 8:44 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:51:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
>> @@ -1794,7 +1794,7 @@ bool move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
>> /*
>> * Returns
>> * - 0 if PMD could not be locked
>> - * - 1 if PMD was locked but protections unchange and TLB flush unnecessary
>> + * - 1 if PMD was locked but protections unchanged and TLB flush unnecessary
>> * - HPAGE_PMD_NR is protections changed and TLB flush necessary
>
> s/is/if/
>
>> @@ -5306,7 +5306,7 @@ void adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>>
>> /*
>> * vma need span at least one aligned PUD size and the start,end range
>> - * must at least partialy within it.
>> + * must at least partially within it.
>
> * vma needs to span at least one aligned PUD size, and the range
> * must be at least partially within in.
>
>> /*
>> * swapon tell device that all the old swap contents can be discarded,
>> - * to allow the swap device to optimize its wear-levelling.
>> + * to allow the swap device to optimize its wear-leveling.
>> */
>
> Levelling is british english, leveling is american english. we don't
> usually "correct" one into the other.

How about "labelled" (from mm/kasan/shadow.c):

@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static int kasan_depopulate_vmalloc_pte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr,
* How does this work?
* -------------------
*
- * We have a region that is page aligned, labelled as A.
+ * We have a region that is page aligned, labeled as A.
* That might not map onto the shadow in a way that is page-aligned:


--
~Randy

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