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authorHe Ying <heying24@huawei.com>2021-03-26 06:08:53 -0400
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2021-03-31 13:50:59 -0600
commitf8b427772a0e9bd20cfd9029f7824b39fef44c70 (patch)
tree12b93f9166faed42fe9ecc44a912560033d589bc /Documentation/powerpc
parentabb9c078853d0c84f749d272f618a64fb3a27215 (diff)
docs: powerpc: Fix misspellings and grammar errors
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: He Ying <heying24@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210326100853.173586-1-heying24@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst4
9 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst
index 2d0ec2ff2b57..11aa440f98cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting.rst
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ should:
a) add your platform support as a _boolean_ option in
arch/powerpc/Kconfig, following the example of PPC_PSERIES,
- PPC_PMAC and PPC_MAPLE. The later is probably a good
+ PPC_PMAC and PPC_MAPLE. The latter is probably a good
example of a board support to start from.
b) create your main platform file as
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst
index c96ab6befd9c..e55ac6a24b97 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dawr-power9.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DAWR issues on POWER9
On POWER9 the Data Address Watchpoint Register (DAWR) can cause a checkstop
if it points to cache inhibited (CI) memory. Currently Linux has no way to
-disinguish CI memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is
+distinguish CI memory when configuring the DAWR, so (for now) the DAWR is
disabled by this commit::
commit 9654153158d3e0684a1bdb76dbababdb7111d5a0
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst
index 438a87ebc095..d6643a91bdf8 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.rst
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ return all-ff's (0xff, 0xffff, 0xffffffff for 8/16/32-bit reads).
This value was chosen because it is the same value you would
get if the device was physically unplugged from the slot.
This includes access to PCI memory, I/O space, and PCI config
-space. Interrupts; however, will continued to be delivered.
+space. Interrupts; however, will continue to be delivered.
Detection and recovery are performed with the aid of ppc64
firmware. The programming interfaces in the Linux kernel
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst
index 06602248621c..3ec8d61e9a33 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/elfnote.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ capabilities and information which can be used by a bootloader or userland.
Types and Descriptors
---------------------
-The types to be used with the "PowerPC" namesapce are defined in [#f1]_.
+The types to be used with the "PowerPC" namespace are defined in [#f1]_.
1) PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
index 6c0ae070ba67..e363fc48529a 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.rst
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ Currently the dump will be copied from /proc/vmcore to a new file upon
user intervention. The dump data available through /proc/vmcore will be
in ELF format. Hence the existing kdump infrastructure (kdump scripts)
to save the dump works fine with minor modifications. KDump scripts on
-major Distro releases have already been modified to work seemlessly (no
+major Distro releases have already been modified to work seamlessly (no
user intervention in saving the dump) when FADump is used, instead of
KDump, as dump mechanism.
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst
index 8b259fdfdf03..5681c1d1b65b 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/kaslr-booke32.rst
@@ -38,5 +38,5 @@ bit of the entropy to decide the index of the 64M zone. Then we chose a
kernstart_virt_addr
-To enable KASLR, set CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE = y. If KASLR is enable and you
+To enable KASLR, set CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE = y. If KASLR is enabled and you
want to disable it at runtime, add "nokaslr" to the kernel cmdline.
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst
index 30260707c3fe..5243b1763fad 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ To compile/use :
Some remarks:
- The port is named mpc52xxx, and config options are PPC_MPC52xx. The MGT5100
- is not supported, and I'm not sure anyone is interesting in working on it
+ is not supported, and I'm not sure anyone is interested in working on it
so. I didn't took 5xxx because there's apparently a lot of 5xxx that have
nothing to do with the MPC5200. I also included the 'MPC' for the same
reason.
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst
index 48fcf1255a33..3d553e8a2937 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ and any in-arguments for the hcall are provided in registers *r4-r12*. If values
have to be passed through a memory buffer, the data stored in that buffer should be
in Big-endian byte order.
-Once control is returns back to the guest after hypervisor has serviced the
+Once control returns back to the guest after hypervisor has serviced the
'HVCS' instruction the return value of the hcall is available in *r3* and any
out values are returned in registers *r4-r12*. Again like in case of in-arguments,
any out values stored in a memory buffer will be in Big-endian byte order.
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ corresponding opcode values please look into the arch specific header [4]_:
| Out: *numBytesRead*
| Return Value: *H_Success, H_Parameter, H_P2, H_P3, H_Hardware*
-Given a DRC Index of an NVDIMM, read N-bytes from the the metadata area
+Given a DRC Index of an NVDIMM, read N-bytes from the metadata area
associated with it, at a specified offset and copy it to provided buffer.
The metadata area stores configuration information such as label information,
bad-blocks etc. The metadata area is located out-of-band of NVDIMM storage
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst
index b5b09bf00966..040a20675fd1 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.rst
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ kernel aborted a transaction:
====================== ================================
These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. If
-bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is consider persistent. For example
+bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is considered persistent. For example
a TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT will be persistent while a TM_CAUSE_RESCHED will not.
GDB
@@ -271,4 +271,4 @@ with these lines:
hrfid and mtmsrd have the same quirk.
-The Linux kernel uses this quirk in it's early exception handling.
+The Linux kernel uses this quirk in its early exception handling.