[PATCH] mm/vmalloc.c: fix a comment

[PATCH] mm/vmalloc.c: fix a comment

[Yixuan Cao]

Dear Sir/Madam,

The sentence
"but the mempolcy want to alloc memory by interleaving"
should be rephrased with
"but the mempolicy wants to alloc memory by interleaving"
where "mempolicy" is a struct name.

Thanks and best regards,
Yixuan Cao

Signed-off-by: Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@email.szu.edu.cn>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index b454cf1a261f..89d48d8eb20c 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2905,7 +2905,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
 			/* memory allocation should consider mempolicy, we can't
 			 * wrongly use nearest node when nid == NUMA_NO_NODE,
 			 * otherwise memory may be allocated in only one node,
-			 * but mempolcy want to alloc memory by interleaving.
+			 * but mempolicy want to alloc memory by interleaving.
 			 */
 			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) && nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
 				nr = alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy(bulk_gfp,
-- 
2.31.1

Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc.c: fix a comment

[Randy Dunlap]

On 2/27/22 00:45, Yixuan Cao wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> The sentence
> "but the mempolcy want to alloc memory by interleaving"
> should be rephrased with
> "but the mempolicy wants to alloc memory by interleaving"
> where "mempolicy" is a struct name.
> 
> Thanks and best regards,
> Yixuan Cao
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@email.szu.edu.cn>
> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index b454cf1a261f..89d48d8eb20c 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -2905,7 +2905,7 @@ vm_area_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp, int nid,
>  			/* memory allocation should consider mempolicy, we can't
>  			 * wrongly use nearest node when nid == NUMA_NO_NODE,
>  			 * otherwise memory may be allocated in only one node,
> -			 * but mempolcy want to alloc memory by interleaving.
> +			 * but mempolicy want to alloc memory by interleaving.

s/want/wants/
as in your commentary above.

>  			 */
>  			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) && nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
>  				nr = alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy(bulk_gfp,

thanks.
-- 
~Randy