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[2003:e9:2707:6b84:19a2:308b:15d6:c5b2]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-b8715d0e99asm133393366b.51.2026.01.11.09.07.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 11 Jan 2026 09:07:04 -0800 (PST) From: Nauman Sabir To: corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nauman Sabir Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errors Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:59:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20260111165901.8508-1-officialnaumansabir@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.50.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Fix various typos and grammatical errors across multiple documentation files to improve clarity and consistency. Changes include: - Fix missing preposition 'in' in process/changes.rst - Correct 'result by' to 'result from' in admin-guide/README.rst - Standardize spelling to 'recognized' in admin-guide/README.rst - Fix 'before hand' to 'beforehand' (3 instances) in cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst - Correct 'allows to limit' to 'allows limiting' in cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst, cgroup-v2.rst, and kconfig-language.rst - Fix 'needs precisely know' to 'needs to precisely know' in cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst - Correct 'overcommited' to 'overcommitted' in cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst - Remove incorrect plural from uncountable nouns: 'metadatas' to 'metadata' in filesystems/erofs.rst, and 'hardwares' to 'hardware' in devicetree/bindings/.../mediatek,dp.yaml, userspace-api/.../legacy_dvb_audio.rst, and scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx These corrections improve the overall quality and readability of the kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Nauman Sabir --- Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 4 ++-- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst | 12 ++++++------ Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 2 +- .../bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,dp.yaml | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst | 2 +- Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst | 2 +- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx | 2 +- .../userspace-api/media/dvb/legacy_dvb_audio.rst | 2 +- 9 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst index 05301f03b..65a06f946 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Documentation these typically contain kernel-specific installation notes for some drivers for example. Please read the :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst ` file, as it - contains information about the problems, which may result by upgrading + contains information about the problems which may result from upgrading your kernel. Installing the kernel source @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ Compiling the kernel - Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do ``make install`` if you have lilo installed or if your distribution has an - install script recognised by the kernel's installer. Most popular + install script recognized by the kernel's installer. Most popular distributions will have a recognized install script. You may want to check your distribution's setup first. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst index 493a8e386..02f8cd0f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ control group and enforces the limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to fault in HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. Therefore the application needs to know exactly how many -HugeTLB pages it uses before hand, and the sysadmin needs to make sure that +HugeTLB pages it uses beforehand, and the sysadmin needs to make sure that there are enough available on the machine for all the users to avoid processes getting SIGBUS. @@ -91,11 +91,11 @@ getting SIGBUS. hugetlb..rsvd.usage_in_bytes hugetlb..rsvd.failcnt -The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB reservations per control +The HugeTLB controller allows limiting the HugeTLB reservations per control group and enforces the controller limit at reservation time and at the fault of HugeTLB memory for which no reservation exists. Since reservation limits are enforced at reservation time (on mmap or shget), reservation limits never causes -the application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved before hand. For +the application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved beforehand. For MAP_NORESERVE allocations, the reservation limit behaves the same as the fault limit, enforcing memory usage at fault time and causing the application to receive a SIGBUS if it's crossing its limit. @@ -103,11 +103,11 @@ receive a SIGBUS if it's crossing its limit. Reservation limits are superior to page fault limits described above, since reservation limits are enforced at reservation time (on mmap or shget), and never causes the application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved -before hand. This allows for easier fallback to alternatives such as +beforehand. This allows for easier fallback to alternatives such as non-HugeTLB memory for example. In the case of page fault accounting, it's very -hard to avoid processes getting SIGBUS since the sysadmin needs precisely know +hard to avoid processes getting SIGBUS since the sysadmin needs to precisely know the HugeTLB usage of all the tasks in the system and make sure there is enough -pages to satisfy all requests. Avoiding tasks getting SIGBUS on overcommited +pages to satisfy all requests. Avoiding tasks getting SIGBUS on overcommitted systems is practically impossible with page fault accounting. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index 7f5b59d95..098d6831b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -2816,7 +2816,7 @@ DMEM Interface Files HugeTLB ------- -The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and +The HugeTLB controller allows limiting the HugeTLB usage per control group and enforces the controller limit during page fault. HugeTLB Interface Files diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,dp.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,dp.yaml index 274f59080..8f4bd9fb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,dp.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/mediatek/mediatek,dp.yaml @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ maintainers: - Jitao shi description: | - MediaTek DP and eDP are different hardwares and there are some features + MediaTek DP and eDP are different hardware and there are some features which are not supported for eDP. For example, audio is not supported for eDP. Therefore, we need to use two different compatibles to describe them. In addition, We just need to enable the power domain of DP, so the clock diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst index 08194f194..e61db115e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ to be as simple as possible:: 0 +1K All data areas should be aligned with the block size, but metadata areas -may not. All metadatas can be now observed in two different spaces (views): +may not. All metadata can be now observed in two different spaces (views): 1. Inode metadata space diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst index abce88f15..7067ec3f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). - numerical ranges: "range" ["if" ] - This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int + This allows limiting the range of possible input values for int and hex symbols. The user can only input a value which is larger than or equal to the first symbol and smaller than or equal to the second symbol. diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 62951cdb1..0cf97dbab 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ DevFS has been obsoleted in favour of udev Linux documentation for functions is transitioning to inline documentation via specially-formatted comments near their definitions in the source. These comments can be combined with ReST -files the Documentation/ directory to make enriched documentation, which can +files in the Documentation/ directory to make enriched documentation, which can then be converted to PostScript, HTML, LaTex, ePUB and PDF files. In order to convert from ReST format to a format of your choice, you'll need Sphinx. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx index 3435227a2..6bca91e03 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Sat May 12 12:00 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr) - Ensure LEDC bit in GPCNTL is cleared when reading the NVRAM. Fix sent by Stig Telfer . - Backport from SYM-2 the work-around that allows to support - hardwares that fail PCI parity checking. + hardware that fails PCI parity checking. - Check that we received at least 8 bytes of INQUIRY response for byte 7, that contains device capabilities, to be valid. - Define scsi_set_pci_device() as nil for kernel < 2.4.4. diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/legacy_dvb_audio.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/legacy_dvb_audio.rst index 81b762ef1..99ffda355 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/legacy_dvb_audio.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/legacy_dvb_audio.rst @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ Description ~~~~~~~~~~~ A call to `AUDIO_GET_CAPABILITIES`_ returns an unsigned integer with the -following bits set according to the hardwares capabilities. +following bits set according to the hardware's capabilities. ----- -- 2.52.0