linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix typos in comments

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Message-ID: <YFgV/Np4ps8zFG6j@ArchLinux>
Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:28:52 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix typos in comments

On 20:52 Sun 21 Mar 2021, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>On 3/21/21 8:44 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> 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.
>
>How about "labelled" (from mm/kasan/shadow.c):
>

Not sure , "levelling" and "labelling" is the same thing...I think all of us
missed the context ...isn't that dictated by the context(soruce code,
effecets) ...

>@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static int kasan_depopulate_vmalloc_pte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr,
>  * How does this work?
>  * -------------------
>  *
>- * We have a region that is page aligned, labelled as A.
>+ * We have a region that is page aligned, labeled as A.
>  * That might not map onto the shadow in a way that is page-aligned:
>
>
>--
>~Randy
>

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