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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix typos in comments
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 03:44:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210322034408.GD1719932@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210322025152.GA1922846@gmail.com>

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.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-22  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-22  2:51 [PATCH] mm: Fix typos in comments Ingo Molnar
2021-03-22  3:44 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2021-03-22  3:52   ` Randy Dunlap
2021-03-22  3:58     ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2021-03-22 20:52   ` [PATCH, -v2] " Ingo Molnar
2021-03-22  4:01 ` [PATCH] " Randy Dunlap
2021-03-22 20:50   ` Ingo Molnar
2021-03-22 21:02     ` Randy Dunlap
2021-03-22 21:26       ` [PATCH, -v3] " Ingo Molnar
2021-03-28 21:52         ` Andrew Morton
2021-05-09  6:26 [PATCH] mm: fix " Hyeonggon Yoo
2022-03-18 10:37 Julia Lawall
2022-03-18 11:07 ` Joe Perches
2022-03-18 11:15   ` Julia Lawall

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