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Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/DMA-API.txt
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Expand Up @@ -676,8 +676,8 @@ this directory the following files can currently be found:
dma-api/all_errors This file contains a numeric value. If this
value is not equal to zero the debugging code
will print a warning for every error it finds
into the kernel log. Be carefull with this
option. It can easily flood your logs.
into the kernel log. Be careful with this
option, as it can easily flood your logs.

dma-api/disabled This read-only file contains the character 'Y'
if the debugging code is disabled. This can
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt
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Expand Up @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ to another chain) checking the final 'nulls' value if
the lookup met the end of chain. If final 'nulls' value
is not the slot number, then we must restart the lookup at
the beginning. If the object was moved to the same chain,
then the reader doesnt care : It might eventually
then the reader doesn't care : It might eventually
scan the list again without harm.


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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/SM501.txt
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Expand Up @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Copyright 2006, 2007 Simtec Electronics

The Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip is a multifunction device
which may provide numerous interfaces including USB host controller USB gadget,
Asyncronous Serial ports, Audio functions and a dual display video interface.
asynchronous serial ports, audio functions, and a dual display video interface.
The device may be connected by PCI or local bus with varying functions enabled.

Core
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt
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front_merges (bool)
------------

Sometimes it happens that a request enters the io scheduler that is contigious
Sometimes it happens that a request enters the io scheduler that is contiguous
with a request that is already on the queue. Either it fits in the back of that
request, or it fits at the front. That is called either a back merge candidate
or a front merge candidate. Due to the way files are typically laid out,
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/braille-console.txt
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For simplicity, only one braille console can be enabled, other uses of
console=brl,... will be discarded. Also note that it does not interfere with
the console selection mecanism described in serial-console.txt
the console selection mechanism described in serial-console.txt

For now, only the VisioBraille device is supported.

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
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Expand Up @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ For example, you can do something like the following.

void my_midlayer_destroy_something()
{
devres_release_group(dev, my_midlayer_create_soemthing);
devres_release_group(dev, my_midlayer_create_something);
}


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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions Documentation/edac.txt
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The bluesmoke project at sourceforge.net is now utilized as a 'staging area'
for EDAC development, before it is sent upstream to kernel.org

At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site, is a series of quilt patches against
recent kernels, stored in a SVN respository. For easier downloading, there
At the bluesmoke/EDAC project site is a series of quilt patches against
recent kernels, stored in a SVN repository. For easier downloading, there
is also a tarball snapshot available.

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to generate parity. Some vendors do not do this, and thus the parity bit
can "float" giving false positives.

In the kernel there is a pci device attribute located in sysfs that is
In the kernel there is a PCI device attribute located in sysfs that is
checked by the EDAC PCI scanning code. If that attribute is set,
PCI parity/error scannining is skipped for that device. The attribute
PCI parity/error scanning is skipped for that device. The attribute
is:

broken_parity_status
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/fb/sh7760fb.txt
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SH7760/SH7763 integrated LCDC Framebuffer driver
================================================

0. Overwiew
0. Overview
-----------
The SH7760/SH7763 have an integrated LCD Display controller (LCDC) which
supports (in theory) resolutions ranging from 1x1 to 1024x1024,
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
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Expand Up @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ The call requires an initialized struct autofs_dev_ioctl. There are two
possible variations. Both use the path field set to the path of the mount
point to check and the size field adjusted appropriately. One uses the
ioctlfd field to identify a specific mount point to check while the other
variation uses the path and optionaly arg1 set to an autofs mount type.
variation uses the path and optionally arg1 set to an autofs mount type.
The call returns 1 if this is a mount point and sets arg1 to the device
number of the mount and field arg2 to the relevant super block magic
number (described below) or 0 if it isn't a mountpoint. In both cases
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
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have index children.

If this function is not supplied or if it returns NULL then the first
cache in the parent's list will be chosed, or failing that, the first
cache in the parent's list will be chosen, or failing that, the first
cache in the master list.

(4) A function to retrieve an object's key from the netfs [mandatory].
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
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Expand Up @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ max_batch_time=usec Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for
amount of time (on average) that it takes to
finish committing a transaction. Call this time
the "commit time". If the time that the
transactoin has been running is less than the
transaction has been running is less than the
commit time, ext4 will try sleeping for the
commit time to see if other operations will join
the transaction. The commit time is capped by
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journal commit, in the default data=ordered
mode, the data blocks of the new file are forced
to disk before the rename() operation is
commited. This provides roughly the same level
committed. This provides roughly the same level
of guarantees as ext3, and avoids the
"zero-length" problem that can happen when a
system crashes before the delayed allocation
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In the event of a crash, the journal can be replayed, bringing both data and
metadata into a consistent state. This mode is the slowest except when data
needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it
outperforms all others modes. Curently ext4 does not have delayed
outperforms all others modes. Currently ext4 does not have delayed
allocation support if this data journalling mode is selected.

References
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt
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int fiemap_check_flags(struct fiemap_extent_info *fieinfo, u32 fs_flags);

The struct fieinfo should be passed in as recieved from ioctl_fiemap(). The
The struct fieinfo should be passed in as received from ioctl_fiemap(). The
set of fiemap flags which the fs understands should be passed via fs_flags. If
fiemap_check_flags finds invalid user flags, it will place the bad values in
fieinfo->fi_flags and return -EBADR. If the file system gets -EBADR, from
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt
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$ sudo cp utils/mount/mount.nfs /sbin/mount.nfs

In this location, mount.nfs will be invoked automatically for NFS mounts
by the system mount commmand.
by the system mount command.

NOTE: mount.nfs and therefore nfs-utils-1.1.2 or greater is only needed
on the NFS client machine. You do not need this specific version of
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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Expand Up @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ just those considered 'most important'. The new vectors are:
RES, CAL, TLB -- rescheduling, call and TLB flush interrupts are
sent from one CPU to another per the needs of the OS. Typically,
their statistics are used by kernel developers and interested users to
determine the occurance of interrupt of the given type.
determine the occurrence of interrupts of the given type.

The above IRQ vectors are displayed only when relevent. For example,
the threshold vector does not exist on x86_64 platforms. Others are
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memory once that memory has been successfully allocated.
VmallocTotal: total size of vmalloc memory area
VmallocUsed: amount of vmalloc area which is used
VmallocChunk: largest contigious block of vmalloc area which is free
VmallocChunk: largest contiguous block of vmalloc area which is free

..............................................................................

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt
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Expand Up @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's
ROM file, if available. It's disabled by default, however, so applications
should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read
call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. Note
that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully.
that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data successfully.
In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the
'enable' file, documented above.

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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
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Expand Up @@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ sys_immutable -- If set, ATTR_SYS attribute on FAT is handled as
flush -- If set, the filesystem will try to flush to disk more
early than normal. Not set by default.

rodir -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows,
the ATTR_RO of the directory will be just ignored actually,
and is used by only applications as flag. E.g. it's setted
for the customized folder.
rodir -- FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. On Windows,
the ATTR_RO of the directory will just be ignored,
and is used only by applications as a flag (e.g. it's set
for the customized folder).

If you want to use ATTR_RO as read-only flag even for
the directory, set this option.
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/gpio.txt
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Expand Up @@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ debugfs interface, since it provides control over GPIO direction and
value instead of just showing a gpio state summary. Plus, it could be
present on production systems without debugging support.

Given approprate hardware documentation for the system, userspace could
Given appropriate hardware documentation for the system, userspace could
know for example that GPIO #23 controls the write protect line used to
protect boot loader segments in flash memory. System upgrade procedures
may need to temporarily remove that protection, first importing a GPIO,
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
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2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is
no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible
only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As
only with the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As
of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64 architectures support relocatable
kernel.

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----------------------------------------------------------

- No specific options are required to create a dump-capture kernel
for ia64, other than those specified in the arch idependent section
for ia64, other than those specified in the arch independent section
above. This means that it is possible to use the system kernel
as a dump-capture kernel if desired.

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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kgdboc= [HW] kgdb over consoles.
Requires a tty driver that supports console polling.
(only serial suported for now)
(only serial supported for now)
Format: <serial_device>[,baud]

kmac= [MIPS] korina ethernet MAC address.
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('y', default) or cooked coordinates ('n')

mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continous chunk
used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continuous chunk
that could hold holes aka. UC entries.

mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86]
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/kobject.txt
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const char *kobject_name(const struct kobject * kobj);

There is a helper function to both initialize and add the kobject to the
kernel at the same time, called supprisingly enough kobject_init_and_add():
kernel at the same time, called surprisingly enough kobject_init_and_add():

int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype,
struct kobject *parent, const char *fmt, ...);
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt
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Expand Up @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ NOTE: The Acer Aspire One is not supported hardware. It cannot work with
acer-wmi until Acer fix their ACPI-WMI implementation on them, so has been
blacklisted until that happens.

Please see the website for the current list of known working hardare:
Please see the website for the current list of known working hardware:

http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware

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/sys/class/backlight/sony/
directory. You will be able to query and set the current screen
brightness:
brightness get/set screen brightness (an iteger
brightness get/set screen brightness (an integer
between 0 and 7)
actual_brightness reading from this file will query the HW
to get real brightness value
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In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW
events for switches:

SW_RFKILL_ALL T60 and later hardare rfkill rocker switch
SW_RFKILL_ALL T60 and later hardware rfkill rocker switch
SW_TABLET_MODE Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A

Non hot-key ACPI HKEY event map:
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/local_ops.txt
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It can be done by slightly modifying the standard atomic operations : only
their UP variant must be kept. It typically means removing LOCK prefix (on
i386 and x86_64) and any SMP sychronization barrier. If the architecture does
i386 and x86_64) and any SMP synchronization barrier. If the architecture does
not have a different behavior between SMP and UP, including asm-generic/local.h
in your architecture's local.h is sufficient.

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(see Section 4.).

Logical Memory Hotplug phase is to change memory state into
avaiable/unavailable for users. Amount of memory from user's view is
available/unavailable for users. Amount of memory from user's view is
changed by this phase. The kernel makes all memory in it as free pages
when a memory range is available.

In this document, this phase is described as online/offline.

Logical Memory Hotplug phase is triggred by write of sysfs file by system
Logical Memory Hotplug phase is triggered by write of sysfs file by system
administrator. For the hot-add case, it must be executed after Physical Hotplug
phase by hand.
(However, if you writes udev's hotplug scripts for memory hotplug, these
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Generated if MEMORY_GOING_ONLINE fails.

MEMORY_ONLINE
Generated when memory has succesfully brought online. The callback may
Generated when memory has successfully brought online. The callback may
allocate pages from the new memory.

MEMORY_GOING_OFFLINE
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struct memory_notify {
unsigned long start_pfn;
unsigned long nr_pages;
int status_cahnge_nid;
int status_change_nid;
}

start_pfn is start_pfn of online/offline memory.
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passed in D0:D1. If the first argument is not a 64-bit value, but the second
is, the second will be passed entirely on the stack and D1 will be unused.

Arguments smaller than 32-bits are not coelesced within a register or a stack
Arguments smaller than 32-bits are not coalesced within a register or a stack
word. For example, two byte-sized arguments will always be passed in separate
registers or word-sized stack slots.

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cp5 cp5 cp5 cp5 cp4 cp4 cp4 cp4

This figure represents a sector of 256 bytes.
cp is my abbreviaton for column parity, rp for row parity.
cp is my abbreviation for column parity, rp for row parity.

Let's start to explain column parity.
cp0 is the parity that belongs to all bit0, bit2, bit4, bit6.
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linux code 1 million times, this took about 1 second on my system.
(using time to measure the performance). After this iteration I was back
to 0.075 sec. Actually I had to decide to start measuring over 10
million interations in order not to loose too much accuracy. This one
million iterations in order not to lose too much accuracy. This one
definitely seemed to be the jackpot!

There is a little bit more room for improvement though. There are three
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need to correct by adding:
rp4 ^= rp4_6;
rp6 ^= rp4_6
Furthermore there are 4 sequential assingments to rp8. This can be
encoded slightly more efficient by saving tmppar before those 4 lines
Furthermore there are 4 sequential assignments to rp8. This can be
encoded slightly more efficiently by saving tmppar before those 4 lines
and later do rp8 = rp8 ^ tmppar ^ notrp8;
(where notrp8 is the value of rp8 before those 4 lines).
Again a use of the commutative property of xor.
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Analysis 7
==========

Acutally this made things worse. Not very much, but I don't want to move
Actually this made things worse. Not very much, but I don't want to move
into the wrong direction. Maybe something to investigate later. Could
have to do with caching again.

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This makes things worse. Let's stick with attempt 6 and continue from there.
Although it seems that the code within the loop cannot be optimised
further there is still room to optimize the generation of the ecc codes.
We can simply calcualate the total parity. If this is 0 then rp4 = rp5
We can simply calculate the total parity. If this is 0 then rp4 = rp5
etc. If the parity is 1, then rp4 = !rp5;
But if rp4 = rp5 we do not need rp5 etc. We can just write the even bits
in the result byte and then do something like
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- Any slave's 802.3ad association state changes

- The bond's adminstrative state changes to up
- The bond's administrative state changes to up

count or 2

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When this policy is used in conjuction with the mii
monitor, devices which assert link up prior to being
able to actually transmit and receive are particularly
susecptible to loss of the gratuitous ARP, and an
susceptible to loss of the gratuitous ARP, and an
appropriate updelay setting may be required.

follow or 2
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generally referred to as "trunk failover." This is a feature of the
switch that causes the link state of a particular switch port to be set
down (or up) when the state of another switch port goes down (or up).
It's purpose is to propogate link failures from logically "exterior" ports
Its purpose is to propagate link failures from logically "exterior" ports
to the logically "interior" ports that bonding is able to monitor via
miimon. Availability and configuration for trunk failover varies by
switch, but this can be a viable alternative to the ARP monitor when using
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