Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes

This fixes several spelling mistakes in the Documentation/ tree, which
are caught by checkpatch.pl's spell checking.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

23 files changed, 30 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu
index f1e02a98bd9d..99fda67fce18 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-driver-hid-roccat-savu
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ Date:		Mai 2012
 Contact:        Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
 Description:    The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
                 press of a button. A profile is split into general settings and
-                button settings. buttons holds informations about button layout.
-                When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
-                buttons to the mouse. The data has to be 47 bytes long.
+                button settings. The buttons variable holds information about
+                button layout. When written, this file lets one write the
+                respective profile buttons to the mouse. The data has to be
+                47 bytes long.
                 The mouse will reject invalid data.
                 Which profile to write is determined by the profile number
                 contained in the data.
@@ -26,8 +27,8 @@ Date:		Mai 2012
 Contact:        Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
 Description:    The mouse can store 5 profiles which can be switched by the
                 press of a button. A profile is split into general settings and
-                button settings. profile holds informations like resolution, sensitivity
-                and light effects.
+                button settings. A profile holds information like resolution,
+                sensitivity and light effects.
                 When written, this file lets one write the respective profile
                 settings back to the mouse. The data has to be 43 bytes long.
                 The mouse will reject invalid data.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7
index f893337570c1..ec27c6c9e737 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contact:	Linux on PowerPC Developer List <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
 Description:
                 Provides access to the binary "24x7 catalog" provided by the
                 hypervisor on POWER7 and 8 systems. This catalog lists events
-                avaliable from the powerpc "hv_24x7" pmu. Its format is
+                available from the powerpc "hv_24x7" pmu. Its format is
                 documented here:
                 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmesmon/catalog-24x7/master/hv-24x7-catalog.h
 
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd
index 08579e7e1e89..98fd81ad76a1 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-picolcd
@@ -39,5 +39,5 @@ Description:	Make it possible to adjust defio refresh rate.
                 Note: As device can barely do 2 complete refreshes a second
                 it only makes sense to adjust this value if only one or two
                 tiles get changed and it's not appropriate to expect the application
-                to flush it's tiny changes explicitely at higher than default rate.
+                to flush its tiny changes explicitly at higher than default rate.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
index b4436cca97a8..c7fc72d4495c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Description:
                 to enable/disable/clear ACPI interrupts in user space, which can be
                 used to debug some ACPI interrupt storm issues.
 
-                Note that only writting to VALID GPE/Fixed Event is allowed,
+                Note that only writing to VALID GPE/Fixed Event is allowed,
                 i.e. user can only change the status of runtime GPE and
                 Fixed Event with event handler installed.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml
index 361040e6b0f4..f5f5ce8badac 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml
@@ -2841,7 +2841,7 @@ for a GOP and keep it below or equal the set bitrate target. Otherwise the rate
 overall average bitrate for the stream and keeps it below or equal to the set bitrate. In the first case
 the average bitrate for the whole stream will be smaller then the set bitrate. This is caused because the
 average is calculated for smaller number of frames, on the other hand enabling this setting will ensure that
-the stream will meet tight bandwidth contraints. Applicable to encoders.
+the stream will meet tight bandwidth constraints. Applicable to encoders.
 </entry>
               </row>
               <row><entry></entry></row>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-raw-vbi.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-raw-vbi.xml
index f4b61b6ce3c2..78599bbd58f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-raw-vbi.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-raw-vbi.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ initialize all fields of the &v4l2-vbi-format;
 results of <constant>VIDIOC_G_FMT</constant>, and call the
 &VIDIOC-S-FMT; ioctl with a pointer to this structure. Drivers return
 an &EINVAL; only when the given parameters are ambiguous, otherwise
-they modify the parameters according to the hardware capabilites and
+they modify the parameters according to the hardware capabilities and
 return the actual parameters. When the driver allocates resources at
 this point, it may return an &EBUSY; to indicate the returned
 parameters are valid but the required resources are currently not
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.xml
index 7865351688da..a9c0d1dc209a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.xml
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ or the <structfield>flags</structfield> argument is not valid.</para>
         <term><errorcode>ERANGE</errorcode></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>It is not possible to adjust &v4l2-rect; <structfield>
-r</structfield> rectangle to satisfy all contraints given in the
+r</structfield> rectangle to satisfy all constraints given in the
 <structfield>flags</structfield> argument.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
index 370ca006db7a..9bccf16736f7 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt
@@ -176,13 +176,13 @@ a history of how Linux changed RCU more than RCU changed Linux
 which Mathieu Desnoyers is now maintaining [MathieuDesnoyers2009URCU]
 [MathieuDesnoyersPhD].  TINY_RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009BloatWatchRCU] made
 its appearance, as did expedited RCU [PaulEMcKenney2009expeditedRCU].
-The problem of resizeable RCU-protected hash tables may now be on a path
+The problem of resizable RCU-protected hash tables may now be on a path
 to a solution [JoshTriplett2009RPHash].  A few academic researchers are now
 using RCU to solve their parallel problems [HariKannan2009DynamicAnalysisRCU].
 
 2010 produced a simpler preemptible-RCU implementation
 based on TREE_RCU [PaulEMcKenney2010SimpleOptRCU], lockdep-RCU
-[PaulEMcKenney2010LockdepRCU], another resizeable RCU-protected hash
+[PaulEMcKenney2010LockdepRCU], another resizable RCU-protected hash
 table [HerbertXu2010RCUResizeHash] (this one consuming more memory,
 but allowing arbitrary changes in hash function, as required for DoS
 avoidance in the networking code), realization of the 2009 RCU-protected
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ the RCU API [PaulEMcKenney2010RCUAPI].
 [LinusTorvalds2011Linux2:6:38:rc1:NPigginVFS], an RCU-protected red-black
 tree using software transactional memory to protect concurrent updates
 (strange, but true!) [PhilHoward2011RCUTMRBTree], yet another variant of
-RCU-protected resizeable hash tables [Triplett:2011:RPHash], the 3.0 RCU
+RCU-protected resizable hash tables [Triplett:2011:RPHash], the 3.0 RCU
 trainwreck [PaulEMcKenney2011RCU3.0trainwreck], and Neil Brown's "Meet the
 Lockers" LWN article [NeilBrown2011MeetTheLockers].  Some academic
 work looked at debugging uses of RCU [Seyster:2011:RFA:2075416.2075425].
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet
index 08b885d35674..e08a6739e72c 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet
+++ b/Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ RedBoot scripting
 -----------------
 
 All the commands above aren't so useful if they have to be typed in every
-time the Assabet is rebooted.  Therefore it's possible to automatize the boot
+time the Assabet is rebooted.  Therefore it's possible to automate the boot
 process using RedBoot's scripting capability.
 
 For example, I use this to boot Linux with both the kernel and the ramdisk
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/arizona.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/arizona.txt
index 9b30011ecabe..a6e2ea41160c 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/arizona.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/arizona.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Cirrus Logic/Wolfson Microelectronics Arizona class audio SoCs
 
-These devices are audio SoCs with extensive digital capabilites and a range
+These devices are audio SoCs with extensive digital capabilities and a range
 of analogue I/O.
 
 Required properties:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README
index 2d5622f60e11..a54788405429 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/README
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
                 same domain (e.g. running winbind or nss_ldap) and
                 the server supports the Unix Extensions then the uid
                 and gid can be retrieved from the server (and uid
-                and gid would not have to be specifed on the mount. 
+                and gid would not have to be specified on the mount.
                 For servers which do not support the CIFS Unix
                 extensions, the default uid (and gid) returned on lookup
                 of existing files will be the uid (gid) of the person
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt
index 8aef91335701..106d17fbb05f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/design_notes.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Main features of this FS include:
  * Read request (data read, directory listing, lookup requests) balancing between multiple servers.
  * Write requests are replicated to multiple servers and completed only when all of them are acked.
  * Ability to add and/or remove servers from the working set at run-time.
- * Strong authentification and possible data encryption in network channel.
+ * Strong authentication and possible data encryption in network channel.
  * Extended attributes support.
 
 POHMELFS is based on transactions, which are potentially long-standing objects that live
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.txt
index 408679789136..4f3d6a882bdc 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ qnx6fs shares many properties with traditional Unix filesystems. It has the
 concepts of blocks, inodes and directories.
 On QNX it is possible to create little endian and big endian qnx6 filesystems.
 This feature makes it possible to create and use a different endianness fs
-for the target (QNX is used on quite a range of embedded systems) plattform
+for the target (QNX is used on quite a range of embedded systems) platform
 running on a different endianness.
 The Linux driver handles endianness transparently. (LE and BE)
 
diff --git a/Documentation/firmware_class/README b/Documentation/firmware_class/README
index 71f86859d7d8..cafdca8b3b15 100644
--- a/Documentation/firmware_class/README
+++ b/Documentation/firmware_class/README
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
  1), kernel(driver):
         - calls request_firmware(&fw_entry, $FIRMWARE, device)
-        - kernel searchs the fimware image with name $FIRMWARE directly
+        - kernel searches the firmware image with name $FIRMWARE directly
         in the below search path of root filesystem:
                 User customized search path by module parameter 'path'[1]
                 "/lib/firmware/updates/" UTS_RELEASE,
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru
index 915f32063a26..f1d4fe4c366c 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/abituguru
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Supported chips:
         1) For revisions 2 and 3 uGuru's the driver can autodetect the
            sensortype (Volt or Temp) for bank1 sensors, for revision 1 uGuru's
            this doesnot always work. For these uGuru's the autodection can
-           be overriden with the bank1_types module param. For all 3 known
+           be overridden with the bank1_types module param. For all 3 known
            revison 1 motherboards the correct use of this param is:
            bank1_types=1,1,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,1
            You may also need to specify the fan_sensors option for these boards
diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt
index f2cfe265e836..47c1dd9818f2 100644
--- a/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt
+++ b/Documentation/infiniband/ipoib.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Partitions and P_Keys
   main interface for a subinterface is in "parent."
 
   Child interface create/delete can also be done using IPoIB's
-  rtnl_link_ops, where childs created using either way behave the same.
+  rtnl_link_ops, where children created using either way behave the same.
 
 Datagram vs Connected modes
 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt
index 3f24df8c6e65..cd417d7b5bd4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/altera_tse.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This is the driver for the Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet (TSE) controllers
 using the SGDMA and MSGDMA soft DMA IP components. The driver uses the
 platform bus to obtain component resources. The designs used to test this
 driver were built for a Cyclone(R) V SOC FPGA board, a Cyclone(R) V FPGA board,
-and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts seperately. The anticipated use
+and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts separately. The anticipated use
 cases are simple communications between an embedded system and an external peer
 for status and simple configuration of the embedded system.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.txt b/Documentation/networking/can.txt
index 6ab619fcc517..d58ff8467953 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/can.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/can.txt
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
 7. SocketCAN resources
 -----------------------
 
-  The Linux CAN / SocketCAN project ressources (project site / mailing list)
+  The Linux CAN / SocketCAN project resources (project site / mailing list)
   are referenced in the MAINTAINERS file in the Linux source tree.
   Search for CAN NETWORK [LAYERS|DRIVERS].
 
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/bfa.txt b/Documentation/scsi/bfa.txt
index f2d6e9d1791e..3cc4d80d6092 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/bfa.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/bfa.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ be found at:
 
 http://www.brocade.com/services-support/drivers-downloads/adapters/Linux.page
 
-and then click following respective util pacakge link
+and then click following respective util package link
 
         Version                 Link
 
diff --git a/Documentation/timers/hrtimers.txt b/Documentation/timers/hrtimers.txt
index 492f1affb0e5..588d85724f10 100644
--- a/Documentation/timers/hrtimers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/timers/hrtimers.txt
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ was not really a win, due to the different data structures. Also, the
 hrtimer functions now have clearer behavior and clearer names - such as
 hrtimer_try_to_cancel() and hrtimer_cancel() [which are roughly
 equivalent to del_timer() and del_timer_sync()] - so there's no direct
-1:1 mapping between them on the algorithmical level, and thus no real
+1:1 mapping between them on the algorithmic level, and thus no real
 potential for code sharing either.
 
 Basic data types: every time value, absolute or relative, is in a
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/README.cx88 b/Documentation/video4linux/README.cx88
index 35fae23f883b..b09ce36b921e 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/README.cx88
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/README.cx88
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ the driver.  What to do then?
      cx88-cards.c.  If that worked, mail me your changes as unified
      diff ("diff -u").
  (3) Or you can mail me the config information.  I need at least the
-     following informations to add the card:
+     following information to add the card:
 
      * the PCI Subsystem ID ("0070:3400" from the line above,
        "lspci -v" output is fine too).
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ
index d3f1d7783d1c..646a47de0016 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Sound-FAQ
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ receiver chips.  Some boards use the i2c bus instead of the gpio pins
 to connect the mux chip.
 
 As mentioned above, there is a array which holds the required
-informations for each known board.  You basically have to create a new
+information for each known board.  You basically have to create a new
 line for your board.  The important fields are these two:
 
 struct tvcard
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
index 54dd9b9c6c31..b7a3f6d6cfc1 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ resulting effect on persistent huge page allocation is as follows:
    node list of "all" with numactl --interleave or --membind [-m] to achieve
    interleaving over all nodes in the system or cpuset.
 
-4) Any task mempolicy specifed--e.g., using numactl--will be constrained by
+4) Any task mempolicy specified--e.g., using numactl--will be constrained by
    the resource limits of any cpuset in which the task runs.  Thus, there will
    be no way for a task with non-default policy running in a cpuset with a
    subset of the system nodes to allocate huge pages outside the cpuset