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authorMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>2008-07-25 22:45:33 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-26 15:00:06 -0400
commitd91958815d214ea365b98cbff6215383897edcb6 (patch)
treea50416a04c9ae84c4242dbec62d8f211d97ea4d2 /Documentation/vm
parent19fd6231279be3c3bdd02ed99f9b0eb195978064 (diff)
Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
index 8a5b5763f0fe..ea8714fcc3ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ memory that is preset in system at this time. System administrators may want
77to put this command in one of the local rc init files. This will enable the 77to put this command in one of the local rc init files. This will enable the
78kernel to request huge pages early in the boot process (when the possibility 78kernel to request huge pages early in the boot process (when the possibility
79of getting physical contiguous pages is still very high). In either 79of getting physical contiguous pages is still very high). In either
80case, adminstrators will want to verify the number of hugepages actually 80case, administrators will want to verify the number of hugepages actually
81allocated by checking the sysctl or meminfo. 81allocated by checking the sysctl or meminfo.
82 82
83/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages indicates how large the pool of 83/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages indicates how large the pool of
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt
index bad16d3f6a47..6aaaeb38730c 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ most general to most specific:
58 the policy at the time they were allocated. 58 the policy at the time they were allocated.
59 59
60 VMA Policy: A "VMA" or "Virtual Memory Area" refers to a range of a task's 60 VMA Policy: A "VMA" or "Virtual Memory Area" refers to a range of a task's
61 virtual adddress space. A task may define a specific policy for a range 61 virtual address space. A task may define a specific policy for a range
62 of its virtual address space. See the MEMORY POLICIES APIS section, 62 of its virtual address space. See the MEMORY POLICIES APIS section,
63 below, for an overview of the mbind() system call used to set a VMA 63 below, for an overview of the mbind() system call used to set a VMA
64 policy. 64 policy.
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ follows:
353 353
354 Because of this extra reference counting, and because we must lookup 354 Because of this extra reference counting, and because we must lookup
355 shared policies in a tree structure under spinlock, shared policies are 355 shared policies in a tree structure under spinlock, shared policies are
356 more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is expecially 356 more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is especially
357 true for shared policies on shared memory regions shared by tasks running 357 true for shared policies on shared memory regions shared by tasks running
358 on different NUMA nodes. This extra overhead can be avoided by always 358 on different NUMA nodes. This extra overhead can be avoided by always
359 falling back to task or system default policy for shared memory regions, 359 falling back to task or system default policy for shared memory regions,