Documentation: remove duplicated words

Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.

Examples:
        "and and" --> "and"
        "in in" --> "in"
        "the the" --> "the"
        "the the" --> "to the"
        ...

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

52 files changed, 61 insertions, 62 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
index 1d8dccf04e79..028614cdd062 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ The query is performed via a call to pci_set_dma_mask():
 
         int pci_set_dma_mask(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 device_mask);
 
-The query for consistent allocations is performed via a a call to
+The query for consistent allocations is performed via a call to
 pci_set_consistent_dma_mask():
 
         int pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(struct pci_dev *pdev, u64 device_mask);
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
index 065e8dc23e3a..c684abf0d3b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
@@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@ and other resources, etc.
         <listitem>
         <para>
         When it's known that HBA is in ready state but ATA/ATAPI
-        device in in unknown state, reset only device.
+        device is in unknown state, reset only device.
         </para>
         </listitem>
 
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl
index fbc72d4dbc25..143e5ff7deb8 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/usb.tmpl
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ usbdev_ioctl (int fd, int ifno, unsigned request, void *param)
                 <title>Synchronous I/O Support</title>
 
                 <para>Synchronous requests involve the kernel blocking
-                until until the user mode request completes, either by
+                until the user mode request completes, either by
                 finishing successfully or by reporting an error.
                 In most cases this is the simplest way to use usbfs,
                 although as noted above it does prevent performing I/O
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index f8092a891dd0..820fee236967 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ Or, for those who prefer a side-by-side listing:
 
 Either way, the differences are quite small.  Read-side locking moves
 to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock, update-side locking moves from
-from a reader-writer lock to a simple spinlock, and a synchronize_rcu()
+a reader-writer lock to a simple spinlock, and a synchronize_rcu()
 precedes the kfree().
 
 However, there is one potential catch: the read-side and update-side
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index e2f7dc6069c9..34bf8f60d8f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Some new queue property settings:
                 Sets two variables that limit the size of the request.
 
                 - The request queue's max_sectors, which is a soft size in
-                in units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied
+                units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied
                 by the core kernel.
 
                 - The request queue's max_hw_sectors, which is a hard limit
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt
index 2050c9ffc629..07236ed968da 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ the two.
 
 The PCI bus layer freely accesses the fields of struct device. It knows about
 the structure of struct pci_dev, and it should know the structure of struct
-device. Individual PCI device drivers that have been converted the the current
+device. Individual PCI device drivers that have been converted to the current
 driver model generally do not and should not touch the fields of struct device,
 unless there is a strong compelling reason to do so.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/exception.txt b/Documentation/exception.txt
index 3cb39ade290e..2d5aded64247 100644
--- a/Documentation/exception.txt
+++ b/Documentation/exception.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ int verify_area(int type, const void * addr, unsigned long size)
 function (which has since been replaced by access_ok()).
 
 This function verified that the memory area starting at address 
-addr and of size size was accessible for the operation specified 
+'addr' and of size 'size' was accessible for the operation specified
 in type (read or write). To do this, verify_read had to look up the 
 virtual memory area (vma) that contained the address addr. In the 
 normal case (correctly working program), this test was successful. 
diff --git a/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt b/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt
index f373df12ed4c..99ea58e65eff 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ from the console layer before unloading the driver.  The VGA driver cannot be
 unloaded if it is still bound to the console layer. (See
 Documentation/console/console.txt for more information).
 
-This is more complicated in the case of the the framebuffer console (fbcon),
+This is more complicated in the case of the framebuffer console (fbcon),
 because fbcon is an intermediate layer between the console and the drivers:
 
 console ---> fbcon ---> fbdev drivers ---> hardware
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
index 34380d4fbce3..d7099a9266fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ own descendent.  Moreover, there is exactly one cross-directory rename
 
         Consider the object blocking the cross-directory rename.  One
 of its descendents is locked by cross-directory rename (otherwise we
-would again have an infinite set of of contended objects).  But that
+would again have an infinite set of contended objects).  But that
 means that cross-directory rename is taking locks out of order.  Due
 to (2) the order hadn't changed since we had acquired filesystem lock.
 But locking rules for cross-directory rename guarantee that we do not
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
index 8c206f4e0250..133e213ebb72 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ the fdtable structure -
 2. Reading of the fdtable as described above must be protected
    by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().
 
-3. For any update to the the fd table, files->file_lock must
+3. For any update to the fd table, files->file_lock must
    be held.
 
 4. To look up the file structure given an fd, a reader
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
index 3889a8066247..982645a1981d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ FILES
 
 
    /wbox
-       The CPU to SPU communation mailbox. It is write-only can can be written
+       The CPU to SPU communation mailbox. It is write-only and can be written
        in  units  of  32  bits. If the mailbox is full, write() will block and
        poll can be used to wait for it becoming  empty  again.   The  possible
        operations  on  an open wbox file are: write(2) If a count smaller than
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index f9bcf9f4934a..6dd050878a20 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ size:      The limit of allocated bytes for this tmpfs instance. The
 nr_blocks: The same as size, but in blocks of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.
 nr_inodes: The maximum number of inodes for this instance. The default
            is half of the number of your physical RAM pages, or (on a
-           a machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages,
+           machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages,
            whichever is the lower.
 
 These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo, mega and giga and
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index 2001abbc60e6..069cb1094300 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ iocharset=name -- Character set to use for converting between the
                  you should consider the following option instead.
 
 utf8=<bool>   -- UTF-8 is the filesystem safe version of Unicode that
-                 is used by the console.  It can be be enabled for the
+                 is used by the console.  It can be enabled for the
                  filesystem with this option. If 'uni_xlate' gets set,
                  UTF-8 gets disabled.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index cd07c21b8400..7737bfd03cf8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ otherwise noted.
 
   put_link: called by the VFS to release resources allocated by
         follow_link().  The cookie returned by follow_link() is passed
-        to to this method as the last parameter.  It is used by
+        to this method as the last parameter.  It is used by
         filesystems such as NFS where page cache is not stable
         (i.e. page that was installed when the symbolic link walk
         started might not be in the page cache at the end of the
diff --git a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt
index 11dcc5679887..db10250df6be 100644
--- a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/mmu-layout.txt
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ related kernel services:
      (*) __debug_mmu.iamr[]
      (*) __debug_mmu.damr[]
 
-         These receive the current IAMR and DAMR contents. These can be viewed with with the _amr
+         These receive the current IAMR and DAMR contents. These can be viewed with the _amr
          GDB macro:
 
                 (gdb) _amr
diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt b/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt
index ede2c1e51cd7..057e6bebda8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ia64/efirtc.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ to initialize the system view of the time during boot.
 Because we wanted to minimize the impact on existing user-level apps using
 the CMOS clock, we decided to expose an API that was very similar to the one
 used today with the legacy RTC driver (driver/char/rtc.c). However, because 
-EFI provides a simpler services, not all all ioctl() are available. Also
+EFI provides a simpler services, not all ioctl() are available. Also
 new ioctl()s have been introduced for things that EFI provides but not the 
 legacy.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt b/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt
index a71cc6a67ef7..f097c60cba1b 100644
--- a/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ia64/mca.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ by locks is indeterminate, including linked lists.
 ---
 
 The complicated ia64 MCA process.  All of this is mandated by Intel's
-specification for ia64 SAL, error recovery and and unwind, it is not as
+specification for ia64 SAL, error recovery and unwind, it is not as
 if we have a choice here.
 
 * MCA occurs on one cpu, usually due to a double bit memory error.
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ if we have a choice here.
 
 INIT is less complicated than MCA.  Pressing the nmi button or using
 the equivalent command on the management console sends INIT to all
-cpus.  SAL picks one one of the cpus as the monarch and the rest are
+cpus.  SAL picks one of the cpus as the monarch and the rest are
 slaves.  All the OS INIT handlers are entered at approximately the same
 time.  The OS monarch prints the state of all tasks and returns, after
 which the slaves return and the system resumes.
diff --git a/Documentation/input/input.txt b/Documentation/input/input.txt
index fabb8235c279..ff8cea0225f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/input/input.txt
+++ b/Documentation/input/input.txt
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ generated in the kernel straight to the program, with timestamps. The
 API is still evolving, but should be useable now. It's described in
 section 5. 
 
-  This should be the way for GPM and X to get keyboard and mouse mouse
+  This should be the way for GPM and X to get keyboard and mouse
 events. It allows for multihead in X without any specific multihead
 kernel support. The event codes are the same on all architectures and
 are hardware independent.
diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax b/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax
index 7e5731319e30..9c8c6d914ec7 100644
--- a/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax
+++ b/Documentation/isdn/INTERFACE.fax
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Structure T30_s description:
   If the HL-driver receives ISDN_CMD_FAXCMD, all needed information
   is in this struct set by the LL.
   To signal information to the LL, the HL-driver has to set the 
-  the parameters and use ISDN_STAT_FAXIND.
+  parameters and use ISDN_STAT_FAXIND.
   (Please refer to INTERFACE)
 
 Structure T30_s:
diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn b/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn
index 56cc59df1fb7..eeca11f00ccd 100644
--- a/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn
+++ b/Documentation/isdn/README.hysdn
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 $Id: README.hysdn,v 1.3.6.1 2001/02/10 14:41:19 kai Exp $
 The hysdn driver has been written by
-by Werner Cornelius (werner@isdn4linux.de or werner@titro.de) 
+Werner Cornelius (werner@isdn4linux.de or werner@titro.de)
 for Hypercope GmbH Aachen Germany. Hypercope agreed to publish this driver
 under the GNU General Public License.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 08bafa8c1caa..99f2d4d4bf7d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ If die() is called, and it happens to be a thread with pid 0 or 1, or die()
 is called inside interrupt context or die() is called and panic_on_oops is set,
 the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel.
 
-On powererpc systems when a soft-reset is generated, die() is called by all cpus and the system system will boot into the dump-capture kernel.
+On powererpc systems when a soft-reset is generated, die() is called by all cpus and the system will boot into the dump-capture kernel.
 
 For testing purposes, you can trigger a crash by using "ALT-SysRq-c",
 "echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger or write a module to force the panic.
diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt
index 693ef0c63b9c..3da586bc7859 100644
--- a/Documentation/keys.txt
+++ b/Documentation/keys.txt
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are:
 
      Note that this setting is inherited across fork/exec.
 
-     [1] The default default is: the thread keyring if there is one, otherwise
+     [1] The default is: the thread keyring if there is one, otherwise
      the process keyring if there is one, otherwise the session keyring if
      there is one, otherwise the user default session keyring.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
index d5d3f064f552..1c41db21d3c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/m68k/kernel-options.txt
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ switch to another mode once Linux has started.
 
   The first 3 parameters of this sub-option should be obvious: <xres>,
 <yres> and <depth> give the dimensions of the screen and the number of
-planes (depth). The depth is is the logarithm to base 2 of the number
+planes (depth). The depth is the logarithm to base 2 of the number
 of colors possible. (Or, the other way round: The number of colors is
 2^depth).
 
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
index a60f3ce474e3..994355b0cd19 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ effectively random order, despite the write barrier issued by CPU 1:
 
 
 In the above example, CPU 2 perceives that B is 7, despite the load of *C
-(which would be B) coming after the the LOAD of C.
+(which would be B) coming after the LOAD of C.
 
 If, however, a data dependency barrier were to be placed between the load of C
 and the load of *C (ie: B) on CPU 2:
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index dc942eaf490f..de809e58092f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ Changing a Bond's Configuration
 files located in /sys/class/net/<bond name>/bonding
 
         The names of these files correspond directly with the command-
-line parameters described elsewhere in in this file, and, with the
+line parameters described elsewhere in this file, and, with the
 exception of arp_ip_target, they accept the same values.  To see the
 current setting, simply cat the appropriate file.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
index f1f9e8afe1eb..64896470e279 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ ethernet@crystal.cirrus.com) and request that you be registered for automatic
 software-update notification.
 
 Cirrus Logic maintains a web page at http://www.cirrus.com with the
-the latest drivers and technical publications.
+latest drivers and technical publications.
 
 
 6.4 Current maintainer
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt b/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt
index e6c39c5831f5..badb7480ea62 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/decnet.txt
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ ethernet address of your ethernet card has to be set according to the DECnet
 address of the node in order for it to be autoconfigured (and then appear in
 /proc/net/decnet_dev). There is a utility available at the above
 FTP sites called dn2ethaddr which can compute the correct ethernet
-address to use. The address can be set by ifconfig either before at
+address to use. The address can be set by ifconfig either before or
 at the time the device is brought up. If you are using RedHat you can
 add the line:
 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt
index 71fe15af356c..5c0a5cc03998 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Additional Configurations
 
   As an example, if you install the e1000 driver for two PRO/1000 adapters
   (eth0 and eth1) and set the speed and duplex to 10full and 100half, add
-  the following to modules.conf or or modprobe.conf:
+  the following to modules.conf or modprobe.conf:
 
        alias eth0 e1000
        alias eth1 e1000
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
index bd528ffbeb4b..4bde53e85f3f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/s2io.txt
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ However, you may want to set PCI latency timer to 248.
 #setpci -d 17d5:* LATENCY_TIMER=f8
 For detailed description of the PCI registers, please see Xframe User Guide.
 b. Use 2-buffer mode. This results in large performance boost on
-on certain platforms(eg. SGI Altix, IBM xSeries).
+certain platforms(eg. SGI Altix, IBM xSeries).
 c. Ensure Receive Checksum offload is enabled. Use "ethtool -K ethX" command to 
 set/verify this option.
 d. Enable NAPI feature(in kernel configuration Device Drivers ---> Network 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
index 82ce5547db47..4e1cc745ec63 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ Solution: In /proc/pci search for the following entry:
           www.syskonnect.com
           
           Some COMPAQ machines have problems dealing with PCI under Linux.
-          Linux. This problem is described in the 'PCI howto' document
+          This problem is described in the 'PCI howto' document
           (included in some distributions or available from the
           web, e.g. at 'www.linux.org'). 
 
diff --git a/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt
index 634d3e5b5756..6650af432523 100644
--- a/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pci-error-recovery.txt
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ is STEP 6 (Permanent Failure).
 >>> a value of 0xff on read, and writes will be dropped. If the device
 >>> driver attempts more than 10K I/O's to a frozen adapter, it will
 >>> assume that the device driver has gone into an infinite loop, and
->>> it will panic the the kernel. There doesn't seem to be any other
+>>> it will panic the kernel. There doesn't seem to be any other
 >>> way of stopping a device driver that insists on spinning on I/O.
 
 STEP 2: MMIO Enabled
diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
index a99c176c31d2..9ea2208b43b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ instead set the PF_NOFREEZE process flag when creating the thread (and
 be very carefull).
 
 
-Q: What is the difference between between "platform", "shutdown" and
+Q: What is the difference between "platform", "shutdown" and
 "firmware" in /sys/power/disk?
 
 A:
diff --git a/Documentation/prio_tree.txt b/Documentation/prio_tree.txt
index 2fbb0c49bc5b..3aa68f9a117b 100644
--- a/Documentation/prio_tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/prio_tree.txt
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ path which is not desirable. Hence, we do not optimize the height of the
 heap-and-size indexed overflow-sub-trees using prio_tree->index_bits.
 Instead the overflow sub-trees are indexed using full BITS_PER_LONG bits
 of size_index. This may lead to skewed sub-trees because most of the
-higher significant bits of the size_index are likely to be be 0 (zero). In
+higher significant bits of the size_index are likely to be 0 (zero). In
 the example above, all 3 overflow-sub-trees are skewed. This may marginally
 affect the performance. However, processes rarely map many vmas with the
 same start_vm_pgoff but different end_vm_pgoffs. Therefore, we normally
diff --git a/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt b/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt
index 21fb09ce4cf2..8a382bea6808 100644
--- a/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rpc-cache.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Creating a Cache
                 structure
         void cache_put(struct kref *)
                 This is called when the last reference to an item is
-                is dropped.  The pointer passed is to the 'ref' field
+                dropped.  The pointer passed is to the 'ref' field
                 in the cache_head.  cache_put should release any
                 references create by 'cache_init' and, if CACHE_VALID
                 is set, any references created by cache_update.
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
index c051ba27670d..4dd25ee549e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
+++ b/Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
@@ -1085,8 +1085,7 @@ Notes
 -----
 Addresses & values in the VM debugger are always hex never decimal
 Address ranges are of the format <HexValue1>-<HexValue2> or <HexValue1>.<HexValue2> 
-e.g. The address range  0x2000 to 0x3000 can be described described as
-2000-3000 or 2000.1000
+e.g. The address range  0x2000 to 0x3000 can be described as 2000-3000 or 2000.1000
 
 The VM Debugger is case insensitive.
 
@@ -1413,7 +1412,7 @@ SMP Specific commands
 To find out how many cpus you have
 Q CPUS displays all the CPU's available to your virtual machine
 To find the cpu that the current cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do
-Q CPU to change the current cpu cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do
+Q CPU to change the current cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do
 CPU <desired cpu no>
 
 On a SMP guest issue a command to all CPUs try prefixing the command with cpu all.
@@ -2184,7 +2183,7 @@ ps -aux | grep gdb
 kill -SIGSEGV <gdb's pid>
 or alternatively use killall -SIGSEGV gdb if you have the killall command.
 Now look at the core dump.
-./gdb ./gdb core
+./gdb core
 Displays the following
 GNU gdb 4.18
 Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -2477,7 +2476,7 @@ Lcrash is a perfectly normal program,however, it requires 2
 additional files, Kerntypes which is built using a patch to the 
 linux kernel sources in the linux root directory & the System.map.
 
-Kerntypes is an an objectfile whose sole purpose in life
+Kerntypes is an objectfile whose sole purpose in life
 is to provide stabs debug info to lcrash, to do this
 Kerntypes is built from kerntypes.c which just includes the most commonly
 referenced header files used when debugging, lcrash can then read the
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
index 389e0e56e38d..000230cd26db 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Predefined views for hex/ascii, sprintf and raw binary data are provided.
 It is also possible to define other views. The content of
 a view can be inspected simply by reading the corresponding debugfs file.
 
-All debug logs have an an actual debug level (range from 0 to 6).
+All debug logs have an actual debug level (range from 0 to 6).
 The default level is 3. Event and Exception functions have a 'level'
 parameter. Only debug entries with a level that is lower or equal
 than the actual level are written to the log. This means, when
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ The input_proc can be used to implement functionality when it is written to
 the view (e.g. like with 'echo "0" > /sys/kernel/debug/s390dbf/dasd/level).
 
 For header_proc there can be used the default function
-debug_dflt_header_fn() which is defined in in debug.h.
+debug_dflt_header_fn() which is defined in debug.h.
 and which produces the same header output as the predefined views.
 E.g:
 00 00964419409:440761 2 - 00 88023ec
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997 b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997
index dc88ee2ab73d..6faad7e6417c 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.1992-1997
@@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@ Thu Jul 21 10:37:39 1994  Eric Youngdale  (eric@esp22)
 
         * sr.c(sr_open): Do not allow opens with write access.
 
-Mon Jul 18 09:51:22 1994 1994  Eric Youngdale  (eric@esp22)
+Mon Jul 18 09:51:22 1994  Eric Youngdale  (eric@esp22)
 
         * Linux 1.1.31 released.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
index 66ba3ad0ce06..5ff65b184265 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ BOOT TIME CONFIGURATION
 
 If the driver is compiled into the kernel, the same parameters can be
 also set using, e.g., the LILO command line. The preferred syntax is
-is to use the same keyword used when loading as module but prepended
+to use the same keyword used when loading as module but prepended
 with 'st.'. For instance, to set the maximum number of scatter/gather
 segments, the parameter 'st.max_sg_segs=xx' should be used (xx is the
 number of scatter/gather segments).
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
index 4807ef79a94d..077fbe25ebf4 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/DocBook/writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl
@@ -5486,7 +5486,7 @@ struct _snd_pcm_runtime {
   <chapter id="power-management">
     <title>Power Management</title>
     <para>
-      If the chip is supposed to work with with suspend/resume
+      If the chip is supposed to work with suspend/resume
       functions, you need to add the power-management codes to the
       driver. The additional codes for the power-management should be
       <function>ifdef</function>'ed with
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32 b/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32
index cb179bfeb522..b5908a66ff55 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32
+++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/AWE32
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ SB32.
   install awe_wave /sbin/modprobe --first-time -i awe_wave && /usr/local/bin/sfxload PATH_TO_SOUND_BANK_FILE
 
   You will of course have to change "PATH_TO_SOUND_BANK_FILE" to the full
-  path of of the sound bank file. That will enable the Sound Blaster and AWE
+  path of the sound bank file. That will enable the Sound Blaster and AWE
   wave synthesis. To play midi files you should get one of these programs if
   you don't already have them:
 
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1 b/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1
index 6f53d407d027..95c4c83422b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1
+++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/solo1
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ is at least one report of it working on later silicon.
 The chip behaves differently than described in the data sheet,
 likely due to a chip bug. Working around this would require
 the help of ESS (for example by publishing an errata sheet),
-but ESS has not done so so far.
+but ESS has not done so far.
 
 Also, the chip only supports 24 bit addresses for recording,
 which means it cannot work on some Alpha mainboards.
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound b/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound
index 32cd50478b36..eed331c738a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound
+++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/ultrasound
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ db16		???
 no_wave_dma option
 
 This option defaults to a value of 0, which allows the Ultrasound wavetable
-DSP to use DMA for for playback and downloading samples. This is the same
+DSP to use DMA for playback and downloading samples. This is the same
 as the old behaviour. If set to 1, no DMA is needed for downloading samples,
 and allows owners of a GUS MAX to make use of simultaneous digital audio
 (/dev/dsp), MIDI, and wavetable playback.
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd b/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd
index a6ea0a1df9e4..4c6cbdb3c548 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd
+++ b/Documentation/sound/oss/vwsnd
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ boxes.
 
 The Visual Workstation has an Analog Devices AD1843 "SoundComm" audio
 codec chip.  The AD1843 is accessed through the Cobalt I/O ASIC, also
-known as Lithium.  This driver programs both both chips.
+known as Lithium.  This driver programs both chips.
 
 ==============================================================================
 QUICK CONFIGURATION
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx
index 9c45f3df2e18..a1e0ee20f595 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx
+++ b/Documentation/spi/pxa2xx
@@ -124,12 +124,12 @@ use a value of 8.
 The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.timeout_microsecs" fields is used to efficiently handle
 trailing bytes in the SSP receiver fifo.  The correct value for this field is
 dependent on the SPI bus speed ("spi_board_info.max_speed_hz") and the specific
-slave device.  Please note the the PXA2xx SSP 1 does not support trailing byte
+slave device.  Please note that the PXA2xx SSP 1 does not support trailing byte
 timeouts and must busy-wait any trailing bytes.
 
 The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.enable_loopback" field is used to place the SSP porting
 into internal loopback mode.  In this mode the SSP controller internally
-connects the SSPTX pin the the SSPRX pin.  This is useful for initial setup
+connects the SSPTX pin to the SSPRX pin.  This is useful for initial setup
 testing.
 
 The "pxa2xx_spi_chip.cs_control" field is used to point to a board specific
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ DMA and PIO I/O Support
 -----------------------
 The pxa2xx_spi driver support both DMA and interrupt driven PIO message
 transfers.  The driver defaults to PIO mode and DMA transfers must enabled by
-setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_master" structure and and
+setting the "enable_dma" flag in the "pxa2xx_spi_master" structure and
 ensuring that the "pxa2xx_spi_chip.dma_burst_size" field is non-zero.  The DMA
 mode support both coherent and stream based DMA mappings.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
index 068732d32276..72795796b13d 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
+++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ NON-STATIC CONFIGURATIONS
 Developer boards often play by different rules than product boards, and one
 example is the potential need to hotplug SPI devices and/or controllers.
 
-For those cases you might need to use use spi_busnum_to_master() to look
+For those cases you might need to use spi_busnum_to_master() to look
 up the spi bus master, and will likely need spi_new_device() to provide the
 board info based on the board that was hotplugged.  Of course, you'd later
 call at least spi_unregister_device() when that board is removed.
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ As soon as it enters probe(), the driver may issue I/O requests to
 the SPI device using "struct spi_message".  When remove() returns,
 the driver guarantees that it won't submit any more such messages.
 
-  - An spi_message is a sequence of of protocol operations, executed
+  - An spi_message is a sequence of protocol operations, executed
     as one atomic sequence.  SPI driver controls include:
 
       + when bidirectional reads and writes start ... by how its
diff --git a/Documentation/unshare.txt b/Documentation/unshare.txt
index 90a5e9e5bef1..a8643513a5f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/unshare.txt
+++ b/Documentation/unshare.txt
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ items:
        a pointer to it.
 
   7.4) Appropriately modify architecture specific code to register the
-       the new system call.
+       new system call.
 
 8) Test Specification
 ---------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt b/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt
index 671144193093..9cf83e8c27b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/error-codes.txt
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ one or more packets could finish before an error stops further endpoint I/O.
 hardware problems such as bad devices (including firmware) or cables.
 
 (**) This is also one of several codes that different kinds of host
-controller use to to indicate a transfer has failed because of device
+controller use to indicate a transfer has failed because of device
 disconnect.  In the interval before the hub driver starts disconnect
 processing, devices may receive such fault reports for every request.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt b/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt
index cd6fb4b58e1f..6a790754e963 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ index, the ioctl returns -1 and sets errno to -EINVAL.
 HIDIOCGDEVINFO - struct hiddev_devinfo (read)
 Gets a hiddev_devinfo structure which describes the device.
 
-HIDIOCGSTRING - struct struct hiddev_string_descriptor (read/write)
+HIDIOCGSTRING - struct hiddev_string_descriptor (read/write)
 Gets a string descriptor from the device. The caller must fill in the
 "index" field to indicate which descriptor should be returned.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
index 2899628f9daf..8dc2bacc8f1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ Cypress M8 CY4601 Family Serial Driver
                 -Cypress HID->COM RS232 adapter
         
                 Note: Cypress Semiconductor claims no affiliation with the
-                        the hid->com device.
+                        hid->com device.
 
         Most devices using chipsets under the CY4601 family should
      work with the driver.  As long as they stay true to the CY4601
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Options supported:
   debug                 - extra verbose debugging info
                           (default: 0; nonzero enables)
   use_lowlatency        - use low_latency flag to speed up tty layer
-                          when reading from from the device.
+                          when reading from the device.
                           (default: 0; nonzero enables)
 
   See http://www.uuhaus.de/linux/palmconnect.html for up-to-date
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2 b/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2
index c73a32c34528..a4b7ae800866 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/README.pvrusb2
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Source file list / functional overview:
   pvrusb2-i2c-core.[ch] - This module provides an implementation of a
     kernel-friendly I2C adaptor driver, through which other external
     I2C client drivers (e.g. msp3400, tuner, lirc) may connect and
-    operate corresponding chips within the the pvrusb2 device.  It is
+    operate corresponding chips within the pvrusb2 device.  It is
     through here that other V4L modules can reach into this driver to
     operate specific pieces (and those modules are in turn driven by
     glue logic which is coordinated by pvrusb2-hdw, doled out by
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
index 040a2c841ae9..deb218f77adb 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/Zoran
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ tv broadcast formats all aver the world.
 
 The CCIR defines parameters needed for broadcasting the signal.
 The CCIR has defined different standards: A,B,D,E,F,G,D,H,I,K,K1,L,M,N,...
-The CCIR says not much about about the colorsystem used !!!
+The CCIR says not much about the colorsystem used !!!
 And talking about a colorsystem says not to much about how it is broadcast.
 
 The CCIR standards A,E,F are not used any more.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa b/Documentation/vm/numa
index 4b8db1bd3b78..e93ad9425e2a 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/numa
+++ b/Documentation/vm/numa
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The initial port includes NUMAizing the bootmem allocator code by
 encapsulating all the pieces of information into a bootmem_data_t
 structure. Node specific calls have been added to the allocator. 
 In theory, any platform which uses the bootmem allocator should 
-be able to to put the bootmem and mem_map data structures anywhere
+be able to put the bootmem and mem_map data structures anywhere
 it deems best.
 
 Each node's page allocation data structures have also been encapsulated