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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-15 16:47:22 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-15 16:47:22 -0800
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text mm: update 00-INDEX doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half' Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers' doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures treewide: fix "usefull" typo treewide: fix "distingush" typo mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/ kexec: Typo s/the/then/ Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi treewide: Fix common typo in "identify" __page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment Correct some typos for word frequency clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/timers/00-INDEX4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/00-INDEX20
4 files changed, 22 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt
index e59480db9ee0..cc2450d80310 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ all pending DMA writes to complete, and thus provides a mechanism to
strictly order DMA from a device across all intervening busses and
bridges. This barrier is not specific to a particular type of
interconnect, it applies to the system as a whole, and so its
-implementation must account for the idiosyncracies of the system all
+implementation must account for the idiosyncrasies of the system all
the way from the DMA device to memory.
As an example of a situation where DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER would be
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ such mapping is non-trivial task and consumes very limited resources
Buffers allocated with this attribute can be only passed to user space
by calling dma_mmap_attrs(). By using this API, you are guaranteeing
that you won't dereference the pointer returned by dma_alloc_attr(). You
-can threat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and
+can treat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and
dma_free_attrs(). Make sure that both of these also get this attribute
set on each call.
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ to 'device' domain, what synchronizes CPU caches for the given region
(usually it means that the cache has been flushed or invalidated
depending on the dma direction). However, next calls to
dma_map_{single,page,sg}() for other devices will perform exactly the
-same sychronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache sychronization
+same synchronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache synchronization
might be a time consuming operation, especially if the buffers are
large, so it is highly recommended to avoid it if possible.
DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC allows platform code to skip synchronization of
diff --git a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX
index a9248da5cdbc..ef2ccbf77fa2 100644
--- a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX
@@ -8,5 +8,9 @@ hpet_example.c
- sample hpet timer test program
hrtimers.txt
- subsystem for high-resolution kernel timers
+NO_HZ.txt
+ - Summary of the different methods for the scheduler clock-interrupts management.
+timers-howto.txt
+ - how to insert delays in the kernel the right (tm) way.
timer_stats.txt
- timer usage statistics
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt
index 8ec2a67c39b7..4cf53e406613 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Linux provides a number of functions for gadgets to use.
Creating a gadget means deciding what configurations there will be
and which functions each configuration will provide.
-Configfs (please see Documentation/filesystems/configfs/*) lends itslef nicely
+Configfs (please see Documentation/filesystems/configfs/*) lends itself nicely
for the purpose of telling the kernel about the above mentioned decision.
This document is about how to do it.
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ directories must be created:
$ mkdir configs/<name>.<number>
where <name> can be any string which is legal in a filesystem and the
-<numebr> is the configuration's number, e.g.:
+<number> is the configuration's number, e.g.:
$ mkdir configs/c.1
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ from the buffer to the cs), but it is up to the implementer of the
two functions to decide what they actually do.
typedef struct configured_structure cs;
-typedef struc specific_attribute sa;
+typedef struct specific_attribute sa;
sa
+----------------------------------+
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
index 5481c8ba3412..a39d06680e1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ active_mm.txt
- An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
balance
- various information on memory balancing.
-hugepage-mmap.c
- - Example app using huge page memory with the mmap system call.
-hugepage-shm.c
- - Example app using huge page memory with Sys V shared memory system calls.
+cleancache.txt
+ - Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache.
+frontswap.txt
+ - Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend.
+highmem.txt
+ - Outline of highmem and common issues.
hugetlbpage.txt
- a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel.
hwpoison.txt
@@ -16,21 +18,23 @@ ksm.txt
- how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
locking
- info on how locking and synchronization is done in the Linux vm code.
-map_hugetlb.c
- - an example program that uses the MAP_HUGETLB mmap flag.
numa
- information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
numa_memory_policy.txt
- documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support.
overcommit-accounting
- description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
-page-types.c
- - Tool for querying page flags
page_migration
- description of page migration in NUMA systems.
pagemap.txt
- pagemap, from the userspace perspective
slub.txt
- a short users guide for SLUB.
+soft-dirty.txt
+ - short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs
+transhuge.txt
+ - Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages.
unevictable-lru.txt
- Unevictable LRU infrastructure
+zswap.txt
+ - Intro to compressed cache for swap pages