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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Fix typos in comments
On 20:52 Sun 21 Mar 2021, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>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):
>

Not sure , "levelling" and "labelling" is the same thing...I think all of us
missed the context ...isn't that dictated by the context(soruce code,
effecets) ...

>@@ -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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