linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: fix a comment

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Message-Id: <20220401064543.4447-1-caoyixuan2019@email.szu.edu.cn>
Date:   Fri,  1 Apr 2022 14:45:43 +0800
From:   Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@...il.szu.edu.cn>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, yejiajian2018@...il.szu.edu.cn,
        zhangyinan2019@...il.szu.edu.cn, zhaochongxi2019@...il.szu.edu.cn,
        hanshenghong2019@...il.szu.edu.cn, yuhongf@....edu.cn,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@...il.szu.edu.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: fix a comment

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.

This work is coauthored by
Yinan Zhang
Jiajian Ye
Shenghong Han
Chongxi Zhao
Yuhong Feng
Yongqiang Liu

Signed-off-by: Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@...il.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 e163372d3967..d0111d1e370d 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2903,7 +2903,7 @@ 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 wants 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