Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6

* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings

143 files changed, 230 insertions, 230 deletions

diff --git a/fs/adfs/map.c b/fs/adfs/map.c
index d1a5932bb0f1..6935f05202ac 100644
--- a/fs/adfs/map.c
+++ b/fs/adfs/map.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static DEFINE_RWLOCK(adfs_map_lock);
 
 /*
  * This is fun.  We need to load up to 19 bits from the map at an
- * arbitary bit alignment.  (We're limited to 19 bits by F+ version 2).
+ * arbitrary bit alignment.  (We're limited to 19 bits by F+ version 2).
  */
 #define GET_FRAG_ID(_map,_start,_idmask)                                \
         ({                                                              \
diff --git a/fs/afs/cache.c b/fs/afs/cache.c
index 0fb315dd4d2a..577763c3d88b 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cache.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cache.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static uint16_t afs_cell_cache_get_key(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
 }
 
 /*
- * provide new auxilliary cache data
+ * provide new auxiliary cache data
  */
 static uint16_t afs_cell_cache_get_aux(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
                                        void *buffer, uint16_t bufmax)
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static uint16_t afs_cell_cache_get_aux(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
 }
 
 /*
- * check that the auxilliary data indicates that the entry is still valid
+ * check that the auxiliary data indicates that the entry is still valid
  */
 static enum fscache_checkaux afs_cell_cache_check_aux(void *cookie_netfs_data,
                                                       const void *buffer,
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static uint16_t afs_vlocation_cache_get_key(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
 }
 
 /*
- * provide new auxilliary cache data
+ * provide new auxiliary cache data
  */
 static uint16_t afs_vlocation_cache_get_aux(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
                                             void *buffer, uint16_t bufmax)
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static uint16_t afs_vlocation_cache_get_aux(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
 }
 
 /*
- * check that the auxilliary data indicates that the entry is still valid
+ * check that the auxiliary data indicates that the entry is still valid
  */
 static
 enum fscache_checkaux afs_vlocation_cache_check_aux(void *cookie_netfs_data,
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static void afs_vnode_cache_get_attr(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
 }
 
 /*
- * provide new auxilliary cache data
+ * provide new auxiliary cache data
  */
 static uint16_t afs_vnode_cache_get_aux(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
                                         void *buffer, uint16_t bufmax)
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ static uint16_t afs_vnode_cache_get_aux(const void *cookie_netfs_data,
 }
 
 /*
- * check that the auxilliary data indicates that the entry is still valid
+ * check that the auxiliary data indicates that the entry is still valid
  */
 static enum fscache_checkaux afs_vnode_cache_check_aux(void *cookie_netfs_data,
                                                        const void *buffer,
diff --git a/fs/afs/cell.c b/fs/afs/cell.c
index 0d5eeadf6121..3c090b7555ea 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cell.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cell.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ struct afs_cell *afs_cell_lookup(const char *name, unsigned namesz,
                 if (!cell) {
                         /* this should not happen unless user tries to mount
                          * when root cell is not set. Return an impossibly
-                         * bizzare errno to alert the user. Things like
+                         * bizarre errno to alert the user. Things like
                          * ENOENT might be "more appropriate" but they happen
                          * for other reasons.
                          */
diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
index 1007ed616314..91dbe2a107f2 100644
--- a/fs/attr.c
+++ b/fs/attr.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_newsize_ok);
  * setattr_copy must be called with i_mutex held.
  *
  * setattr_copy updates the inode's metadata with that specified
- * in attr. Noticably missing is inode size update, which is more complex
+ * in attr. Noticeably missing is inode size update, which is more complex
  * as it requires pagecache updates.
  *
  * The inode is not marked as dirty after this operation. The rationale is
diff --git a/fs/autofs4/root.c b/fs/autofs4/root.c
index 96804a17bbd0..f55ae23b137e 100644
--- a/fs/autofs4/root.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/root.c
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ static int autofs4_dir_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
  * set the DMANAGED_AUTOMOUNT and DMANAGED_TRANSIT flags on the leaves
  * of the directory tree. There is no need to clear the automount flag
  * following a mount or restore it after an expire because these mounts
- * are always covered. However, it is neccessary to ensure that these
+ * are always covered. However, it is necessary to ensure that these
  * flags are clear on non-empty directories to avoid unnecessary calls
  * during path walks.
  */
diff --git a/fs/befs/ChangeLog b/fs/befs/ChangeLog
index ce8c787916be..75a461cfaca6 100644
--- a/fs/befs/ChangeLog
+++ b/fs/befs/ChangeLog
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Version 0.9 (2002-03-14)
 
 Version 0.64 (2002-02-07)
 ==========
-* Did the string comparision really right this time (btree.c) [WD]
+* Did the string comparison really right this time (btree.c) [WD]
 
 * Fixed up some places where I assumed that a long int could hold
         a pointer value. (btree.c) [WD]
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Version 0.6 (2001-12-15)
         More flexible. Will soon be controllable at mount time 
         (see TODO). [WD]
 
-* Rewrote datastream positon lookups.
+* Rewrote datastream position lookups.
         (datastream.c) [WD]
 
 * Moved the TODO list to its own file.
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Version 0.50 (2001-11-13)
 * Anton also told me that the blocksize is not allowed to be larger than 
         the page size in linux, which is 4k i386. Oops. Added a test for 
         (blocksize > PAGE_SIZE), and refuse to mount in that case. What this 
-        practicaly means is that 8k blocksize volumes won't work without a major
+        practically means is that 8k blocksize volumes won't work without a major
         restructuring of the driver (or an alpha or other 64bit hardware). [WD]
 
 * Cleaned up the befs_count_blocks() function. Much smarter now. 
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ Version 0.45 (2001-10-29)
         structures into the generic pointer fields of the public structures 
         with kmalloc(). put_super and put_inode free them. This allows us not 
         to have to touch the definitions of the public structures in 
-        include/linux/fs.h. Also, befs_inode_info is huge (becuase of the 
+        include/linux/fs.h. Also, befs_inode_info is huge (because of the 
         symlink string). (super.c, inode.c, befs_fs.h) [WD]
 
 * Fixed a thinko that was corrupting file reads after the first block_run 
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ Version 0.4 (2001-10-28)
 
 * Fixed compile errors on 2.4.1 kernel (WD)
         Resolve rejected patches
-        Accomodate changed NLS interface (util.h)
+        Accommodate changed NLS interface (util.h)
         Needed to include <linux/slab.h> in most files
         Makefile changes
         fs/Config.in changes
diff --git a/fs/befs/befs_fs_types.h b/fs/befs/befs_fs_types.h
index 7893eaa1e58c..eb557d9dc8be 100644
--- a/fs/befs/befs_fs_types.h
+++ b/fs/befs/befs_fs_types.h
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ typedef struct {
 } PACKED befs_btree_super;
 
 /*
- * Header stucture of each btree node
+ * Header structure of each btree node
  */
 typedef struct {
         fs64 left;
diff --git a/fs/befs/btree.c b/fs/befs/btree.c
index 4202db7496cb..a66c9b1136e0 100644
--- a/fs/befs/btree.c
+++ b/fs/befs/btree.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *
  * Licensed under the GNU GPL. See the file COPYING for details.
  *
- * 2002-02-05: Sergey S. Kostyliov added binary search withing
+ * 2002-02-05: Sergey S. Kostyliov added binary search within
  *              btree nodes.
  *
  * Many thanks to:
diff --git a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
index 06457ed8f3e7..54b8c28bebc8 100644
--- a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
+++ b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ parse_options(char *options, befs_mount_options * opts)
 
 /* This function has the responsibiltiy of getting the
  * filesystem ready for unmounting. 
- * Basicly, we free everything that we allocated in
+ * Basically, we free everything that we allocated in
  * befs_read_inode
  */
 static void
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
index 811384bec8de..397d3057d336 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm * bprm,
          * help simplify all this mumbo jumbo
          *
          * We've got two different sections of relocation entries.
-         * The first is the GOT which resides at the begining of the data segment
+         * The first is the GOT which resides at the beginning of the data segment
          * and is terminated with a -1.  This one can be relocated in place.
          * The second is the extra relocation entries tacked after the image's
          * data segment. These require a little more processing as the entry is
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 4d6d4b6c2bf1..840a0d755248 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -1436,7 +1436,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_flush_dcache_pages);
  *   preferred way to end I/O on a bio, it takes care of clearing
  *   BIO_UPTODATE on error. @error is 0 on success, and and one of the
  *   established -Exxxx (-EIO, for instance) error values in case
- *   something went wrong. Noone should call bi_end_io() directly on a
+ *   something went wrong. No one should call bi_end_io() directly on a
  *   bio unless they own it and thus know that it has an end_io
  *   function.
  **/
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index c1511c674f53..5147bdd3b8e1 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ void bd_forget(struct inode *inode)
  * @whole: whole block device containing @bdev, may equal @bdev
  * @holder: holder trying to claim @bdev
  *
- * Test whther @bdev can be claimed by @holder.
+ * Test whether @bdev can be claimed by @holder.
  *
  * CONTEXT:
  * spin_lock(&bdev_lock).
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c
index 2b6c12e983b3..a24a3f2fa13e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_map.c
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ out:
  * Insert @em into @tree or perform a simple forward/backward merge with
  * existing mappings.  The extent_map struct passed in will be inserted
  * into the tree directly, with an additional reference taken, or a
- * reference dropped if the merge attempt was successfull.
+ * reference dropped if the merge attempt was successful.
  */
 int add_extent_mapping(struct extent_map_tree *tree,
                        struct extent_map *em)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 65413394daef..5cc64ab9c485 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -2321,7 +2321,7 @@ int btrfs_orphan_cleanup(struct btrfs_root *root)
 
                 /*
                  * if ret == 0 means we found what we were searching for, which
-                 * is weird, but possible, so only screw with path if we didnt
+                 * is weird, but possible, so only screw with path if we didn't
                  * find the key and see if we have stuff that matches
                  */
                 if (ret > 0) {
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
index 58250e09eb05..199a80134312 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
@@ -2346,7 +2346,7 @@ struct btrfs_root *select_one_root(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
                 root = next->root;
                 BUG_ON(!root);
 
-                /* no other choice for non-refernce counted tree */
+                /* no other choice for non-references counted tree */
                 if (!root->ref_cows)
                         return root;
 
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/interface.c b/fs/cachefiles/interface.c
index 37fe101a4e0d..1064805e653b 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/interface.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/interface.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ struct fscache_object *cachefiles_grab_object(struct fscache_object *_object)
 }
 
 /*
- * update the auxilliary data for an object object on disk
+ * update the auxiliary data for an object object on disk
  */
 static void cachefiles_update_object(struct fscache_object *_object)
 {
diff --git a/fs/ceph/addr.c b/fs/ceph/addr.c
index 37368ba2e67c..e159c529fd2b 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/addr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/addr.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
  * context needs to be associated with the osd write during writeback.
  *
  * Similarly, struct ceph_inode_info maintains a set of counters to
- * count dirty pages on the inode.  In the absense of snapshots,
+ * count dirty pages on the inode.  In the absence of snapshots,
  * i_wrbuffer_ref == i_wrbuffer_ref_head == the dirty page count.
  *
  * When a snapshot is taken (that is, when the client receives
diff --git a/fs/ceph/caps.c b/fs/ceph/caps.c
index 6b61ded701e1..5323c330bbf3 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/caps.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/caps.c
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ int __ceph_caps_issued_mask(struct ceph_inode_info *ci, int mask, int touch)
                         if (touch) {
                                 struct rb_node *q;
 
-                                /* touch this + preceeding caps */
+                                /* touch this + preceding caps */
                                 __touch_cap(cap);
                                 for (q = rb_first(&ci->i_caps); q != p;
                                      q = rb_next(q)) {
diff --git a/fs/ceph/snap.c b/fs/ceph/snap.c
index 0aee66b92af3..e86ec1155f8f 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/snap.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/snap.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static int build_snap_context(struct ceph_snap_realm *realm)
         num = 0;
         snapc->seq = realm->seq;
         if (parent) {
-                /* include any of parent's snaps occuring _after_ my
+                /* include any of parent's snaps occurring _after_ my
                    parent became my parent */
                 for (i = 0; i < parent->cached_context->num_snaps; i++)
                         if (parent->cached_context->snaps[i] >=
diff --git a/fs/cifs/AUTHORS b/fs/cifs/AUTHORS
index 7f7fa3c302af..ea940b1db77b 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/AUTHORS
+++ b/fs/cifs/AUTHORS
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Adrian Bunk (kcalloc cleanups)
 Miklos Szeredi 
 Kazeon team for various fixes especially for 2.4 version.
 Asser Ferno (Change Notify support)
-Shaggy (Dave Kleikamp) for inumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup
+Shaggy (Dave Kleikamp) for innumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup
 Gunter Kukkukk (testing and suggestions for support of old servers)
 Igor Mammedov (DFS support)
 Jeff Layton (many, many fixes, as well as great work on the cifs Kerberos code)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
index 0a265ad9e426..2b68ac57d97d 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ void cifs_dfs_release_automount_timer(void)
  *
  * Extracts sharename form full UNC.
  * i.e. strips from UNC trailing path that is not part of share
- * name and fixup missing '\' in the begining of DFS node refferal
+ * name and fixup missing '\' in the beginning of DFS node refferal
  * if necessary.
  * Returns pointer to share name on success or ERR_PTR on error.
  * Caller is responsible for freeing returned string.
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 904aa47e3515..2644a5d6cc67 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -5247,7 +5247,7 @@ cifs_fill_unix_set_info(FILE_UNIX_BASIC_INFO *data_offset,
          * Samba server ignores set of file size to zero due to bugs in some
          * older clients, but we should be precise - we use SetFileSize to
          * set file size and do not want to truncate file size to zero
-         * accidently as happened on one Samba server beta by putting
+         * accidentally as happened on one Samba server beta by putting
          * zero instead of -1 here
          */
         data_offset->EndOfFile = cpu_to_le64(NO_CHANGE_64);
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 8d6c17ab593d..6e2b2addfc78 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ match_security(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct smb_vol *vol)
                 return false;
         }
 
-        /* now check if signing mode is acceptible */
+        /* now check if signing mode is acceptable */
         if ((secFlags & CIFSSEC_MAY_SIGN) == 0 &&
             (server->secMode & SECMODE_SIGN_REQUIRED))
                         return false;
@@ -2933,7 +2933,7 @@ mount_fail_check:
                 if (mount_data != mount_data_global)
                         kfree(mount_data);
                 /* If find_unc succeeded then rc == 0 so we can not end */
-                /* up accidently freeing someone elses tcon struct */
+                /* up accidentally freeing someone elses tcon struct */
                 if (tcon)
                         cifs_put_tcon(tcon);
                 else if (pSesInfo)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index dd5f22918c33..9ea65cf36714 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ cifs_create(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, int mode,
                         inode->i_sb, mode, oflags, &oplock, &fileHandle, xid);
                 /* EIO could indicate that (posix open) operation is not
                    supported, despite what server claimed in capability
-                   negotation.  EREMOTE indicates DFS junction, which is not
+                   negotiation.  EREMOTE indicates DFS junction, which is not
                    handled in posix open */
 
                 if (rc == 0) {
diff --git a/fs/configfs/dir.c b/fs/configfs/dir.c
index 90ff3cb10de3..3313dd19f543 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ static int configfs_dump(struct configfs_dirent *sd, int level)
  * This describes these functions and their helpers.
  *
  * Allow another kernel system to depend on a config_item.  If this
- * happens, the item cannot go away until the dependant can live without
+ * happens, the item cannot go away until the dependent can live without
  * it.  The idea is to give client modules as simple an interface as
  * possible.  When a system asks them to depend on an item, they just
  * call configfs_depend_item().  If the item is live and the client
diff --git a/fs/dlm/lock.c b/fs/dlm/lock.c
index 04b8c449303f..56d6bfcc1e48 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/lock.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lock.c
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ static void toss_rsb(struct kref *kref)
         }
 }
 
-/* When all references to the rsb are gone it's transfered to
+/* When all references to the rsb are gone it's transferred to
    the tossed list for later disposal. */
 
 static void put_rsb(struct dlm_rsb *r)
diff --git a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
index bffa1e73b9a9..5e2c71f05e46 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ static int tcp_accept_from_sock(struct connection *con)
 
         /*
          * Add it to the active queue in case we got data
-         * beween processing the accept adding the socket
+         * between processing the accept adding the socket
          * to the read_sockets list
          */
         if (!test_and_set_bit(CF_READ_PENDING, &addcon->flags))
diff --git a/fs/dlm/recover.c b/fs/dlm/recover.c
index eda43f362616..14638235f7b2 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/recover.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/recover.c
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static void set_master_lkbs(struct dlm_rsb *r)
 }
 
 /*
- * Propogate the new master nodeid to locks
+ * Propagate the new master nodeid to locks
  * The NEW_MASTER flag tells dlm_recover_locks() which rsb's to consider.
  * The NEW_MASTER2 flag tells recover_lvb() and set_locks_purged() which
  * rsb's to consider.
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
index c27c0ecf90bc..fdb2eb0ad09e 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static void ecryptfs_init_mount_crypt_stat(
 /**
  * ecryptfs_parse_options
  * @sb: The ecryptfs super block
- * @options: The options pased to the kernel
+ * @options: The options passed to the kernel
  *
  * Parse mount options:
  * debug=N         - ecryptfs_verbosity level for debug output
@@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ static int __init ecryptfs_init(void)
         }
         rc = ecryptfs_init_messaging();
         if (rc) {
-                printk(KERN_ERR "Failure occured while attempting to "
+                printk(KERN_ERR "Failure occurred while attempting to "
                                 "initialize the communications channel to "
                                 "ecryptfsd\n");
                 goto out_destroy_kthread;
diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index ed38801b57a7..f9cfd168fbe2 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ struct eventpoll {
 
         /*
          * This is a single linked list that chains all the "struct epitem" that
-         * happened while transfering ready events to userspace w/out
+         * happened while transferring ready events to userspace w/out
          * holding ->lock.
          */
         struct epitem *ovflist;
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ static void ep_free(struct eventpoll *ep)
          * We do not need to hold "ep->mtx" here because the epoll file
          * is on the way to be removed and no one has references to it
          * anymore. The only hit might come from eventpoll_release_file() but
-         * holding "epmutex" is sufficent here.
+         * holding "epmutex" is sufficient here.
          */
         mutex_lock(&epmutex);
 
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ void eventpoll_release_file(struct file *file)
         /*
          * We don't want to get "file->f_lock" because it is not
          * necessary. It is not necessary because we're in the "struct file"
-         * cleanup path, and this means that noone is using this file anymore.
+         * cleanup path, and this means that no one is using this file anymore.
          * So, for example, epoll_ctl() cannot hit here since if we reach this
          * point, the file counter already went to zero and fget() would fail.
          * The only hit might come from ep_free() but by holding the mutex
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ static int ep_send_events_proc(struct eventpoll *ep, struct list_head *head,
                                  * Trigger mode, we need to insert back inside
                                  * the ready list, so that the next call to
                                  * epoll_wait() will check again the events
-                                 * availability. At this point, noone can insert
+                                 * availability. At this point, no one can insert
                                  * into ep->rdllist besides us. The epoll_ctl()
                                  * callers are locked out by
                                  * ep_scan_ready_list() holding "mtx" and the
diff --git a/fs/exofs/common.h b/fs/exofs/common.h
index 5e74ad3d4009..3bbd46956d77 100644
--- a/fs/exofs/common.h
+++ b/fs/exofs/common.h
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ struct exofs_sb_stats {
  * Describes the raid used in the FS. It is part of the device table.
  * This here is taken from the pNFS-objects definition. In exofs we
  * use one raid policy through-out the filesystem. (NOTE: the funny
- * alignment at begining. We take care of it at exofs_device_table.
+ * alignment at beginning. We take care of it at exofs_device_table.
  */
 struct exofs_dt_data_map {
         __le32  cb_num_comps;
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ struct exofs_dt_device_info {
         u8      systemid[OSD_SYSTEMID_LEN];
         __le64  long_name_offset;       /* If !0 then offset-in-file */
         __le32  osdname_len;            /* */
-        u8      osdname[44];            /* Embbeded, Ususally an asci uuid */
+        u8      osdname[44];            /* Embbeded, Usually an asci uuid */
 } __packed;
 
 /*
diff --git a/fs/ext2/balloc.c b/fs/ext2/balloc.c
index 0d06f4e75699..8f44cef1b3ef 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/balloc.c
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ static int find_next_reservable_window(
                 rsv_window_remove(sb, my_rsv);
 
         /*
-         * Let's book the whole avaliable window for now.  We will check the
+         * Let's book the whole available window for now.  We will check the
          * disk bitmap later and then, if there are free blocks then we adjust
          * the window size if it's larger than requested.
          * Otherwise, we will remove this node from the tree next time
@@ -1357,9 +1357,9 @@ retry_alloc:
                         goto allocated;
         }
         /*
-         * We may end up a bogus ealier ENOSPC error due to
+         * We may end up a bogus earlier ENOSPC error due to
          * filesystem is "full" of reservations, but
-         * there maybe indeed free blocks avaliable on disk
+         * there maybe indeed free blocks available on disk
          * In this case, we just forget about the reservations
          * just do block allocation as without reservations.
          */
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index c47f706878b5..788e09a07f7e 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static ext2_fsblk_t ext2_find_near(struct inode *inode, Indirect *ind)
                 return ind->bh->b_blocknr;
 
         /*
-         * It is going to be refered from inode itself? OK, just put it into
+         * It is going to be referred from inode itself? OK, just put it into
          * the same cylinder group then.
          */
         bg_start = ext2_group_first_block_no(inode->i_sb, ei->i_block_group);
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ static inline int all_zeroes(__le32 *p, __le32 *q)
  *
  *      When we do truncate() we may have to clean the ends of several indirect
  *      blocks but leave the blocks themselves alive. Block is partially
- *      truncated if some data below the new i_size is refered from it (and
+ *      truncated if some data below the new i_size is referred from it (and
  *      it is on the path to the first completely truncated data block, indeed).
  *      We have to free the top of that path along with everything to the right
  *      of the path. Since no allocation past the truncation point is possible
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ no_top:
  *      @p:     array of block numbers
  *      @q:     points immediately past the end of array
  *
- *      We are freeing all blocks refered from that array (numbers are
+ *      We are freeing all blocks referred from that array (numbers are
  *      stored as little-endian 32-bit) and updating @inode->i_blocks
  *      appropriately.
  */
@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ static inline void ext2_free_data(struct inode *inode, __le32 *p, __le32 *q)
  *      @q:     pointer immediately past the end of array
  *      @depth: depth of the branches to free
  *
- *      We are freeing all blocks refered from these branches (numbers are
+ *      We are freeing all blocks referred from these branches (numbers are
  *      stored as little-endian 32-bit) and updating @inode->i_blocks
  *      appropriately.
  */
diff --git a/fs/ext2/super.c b/fs/ext2/super.c
index 7731695e65d9..0a78dae7e2cb 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/super.c
@@ -1382,7 +1382,7 @@ static struct dentry *ext2_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 
 /* Read data from quotafile - avoid pagecache and such because we cannot afford
  * acquiring the locks... As quota files are never truncated and quota code
- * itself serializes the operations (and noone else should touch the files)
+ * itself serializes the operations (and no one else should touch the files)
  * we don't have to be afraid of races */
 static ssize_t ext2_quota_read(struct super_block *sb, int type, char *data,
                                size_t len, loff_t off)
diff --git a/fs/ext2/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
index c2e4dce984d2..529970617a21 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
  *   +------------------+
  *
  * The block header is followed by multiple entry descriptors. These entry
- * descriptors are variable in size, and alligned to EXT2_XATTR_PAD
+ * descriptors are variable in size, and aligned to EXT2_XATTR_PAD
  * byte boundaries. The entry descriptors are sorted by attribute name,
  * so that two extended attribute blocks can be compared efficiently.
  *
diff --git a/fs/ext3/balloc.c b/fs/ext3/balloc.c
index 153242187fce..fe52297e31ad 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/balloc.c
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ do_more:
                                 BUFFER_TRACE(debug_bh, "Deleted!");
                                 if (!bh2jh(bitmap_bh)->b_committed_data)
                                         BUFFER_TRACE(debug_bh,
-                                                "No commited data in bitmap");
+                                                "No committed data in bitmap");
                                 BUFFER_TRACE2(debug_bh, bitmap_bh, "bitmap");
                                 __brelse(debug_bh);
                         }
@@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ static int find_next_reservable_window(
                 rsv_window_remove(sb, my_rsv);
 
         /*
-         * Let's book the whole avaliable window for now.  We will check the
+         * Let's book the whole available window for now.  We will check the
          * disk bitmap later and then, if there are free blocks then we adjust
          * the window size if it's larger than requested.
          * Otherwise, we will remove this node from the tree next time
@@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ static int ext3_has_free_blocks(struct ext3_sb_info *sbi)
  *
  * ext3_should_retry_alloc() is called when ENOSPC is returned, and if
  * it is profitable to retry the operation, this function will wait
- * for the current or commiting transaction to complete, and then
+ * for the current or committing transaction to complete, and then
  * return TRUE.
  *
  * if the total number of retries exceed three times, return FALSE.
@@ -1632,9 +1632,9 @@ retry_alloc:
                         goto allocated;
         }
         /*
-         * We may end up a bogus ealier ENOSPC error due to
+         * We may end up a bogus earlier ENOSPC error due to
          * filesystem is "full" of reservations, but
-         * there maybe indeed free blocks avaliable on disk
+         * there maybe indeed free blocks available on disk
          * In this case, we just forget about the reservations
          * just do block allocation as without reservations.
          */
diff --git a/fs/ext3/inode.c b/fs/ext3/inode.c
index fe2541d250e4..b5c2f3c97d71 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/inode.c
@@ -2055,7 +2055,7 @@ static inline int all_zeroes(__le32 *p, __le32 *q)
  *
  *      When we do truncate() we may have to clean the ends of several
  *      indirect blocks but leave the blocks themselves alive. Block is
- *      partially truncated if some data below the new i_size is refered
+ *      partially truncated if some data below the new i_size is referred
  *      from it (and it is on the path to the first completely truncated
  *      data block, indeed).  We have to free the top of that path along
  *      with everything to the right of the path. Since no allocation
@@ -2184,7 +2184,7 @@ static void ext3_clear_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
  * @first:      array of block numbers
  * @last:       points immediately past the end of array
  *
- * We are freeing all blocks refered from that array (numbers are stored as
+ * We are freeing all blocks referred from that array (numbers are stored as
  * little-endian 32-bit) and updating @inode->i_blocks appropriately.
  *
  * We accumulate contiguous runs of blocks to free.  Conveniently, if these
@@ -2272,7 +2272,7 @@ static void ext3_free_data(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
  *      @last:  pointer immediately past the end of array
  *      @depth: depth of the branches to free
  *
- *      We are freeing all blocks refered from these branches (numbers are
+ *      We are freeing all blocks referred from these branches (numbers are
  *      stored as little-endian 32-bit) and updating @inode->i_blocks
  *      appropriately.
  */
diff --git a/fs/ext3/resize.c b/fs/ext3/resize.c
index 108b142e11ed..7916e4ce166a 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/resize.c
@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ int ext3_group_extend(struct super_block *sb, struct ext3_super_block *es,
 
         if (test_opt(sb, DEBUG))
                 printk(KERN_DEBUG "EXT3-fs: extending last group from "E3FSBLK
-                       " upto "E3FSBLK" blocks\n",
+                       " up to "E3FSBLK" blocks\n",
                        o_blocks_count, n_blocks_count);
 
         if (n_blocks_count == 0 || n_blocks_count == o_blocks_count)
diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
index 071689f86e18..3c6a9e0eadc1 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
@@ -2925,7 +2925,7 @@ static int ext3_quota_on(struct super_block *sb, int type, int format_id,
 
 /* Read data from quotafile - avoid pagecache and such because we cannot afford
  * acquiring the locks... As quota files are never truncated and quota code
- * itself serializes the operations (and noone else should touch the files)
+ * itself serializes the operations (and no one else should touch the files)
  * we don't have to be afraid of races */
 static ssize_t ext3_quota_read(struct super_block *sb, int type, char *data,
                                size_t len, loff_t off)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 97b970e7dd13..1c67139ad4b4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ int ext4_claim_free_blocks(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi,
  *
  * ext4_should_retry_alloc() is called when ENOSPC is returned, and if
  * it is profitable to retry the operation, this function will wait
- * for the current or commiting transaction to complete, and then
+ * for the current or committing transaction to complete, and then
  * return TRUE.
  *
  * if the total number of retries exceed three times, return FALSE.
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index dd2cb5076ff9..4890d6f3ad15 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -1729,7 +1729,7 @@ repeat:
                 BUG_ON(npath->p_depth != path->p_depth);
                 eh = npath[depth].p_hdr;
                 if (le16_to_cpu(eh->eh_entries) < le16_to_cpu(eh->eh_max)) {
-                        ext_debug("next leaf isnt full(%d)\n",
+                        ext_debug("next leaf isn't full(%d)\n",
                                   le16_to_cpu(eh->eh_entries));
                         path = npath;
                         goto repeat;
@@ -2533,7 +2533,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_zeroout(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_extent *ex)
 /*
  * This function is called by ext4_ext_map_blocks() if someone tries to write
  * to an uninitialized extent. It may result in splitting the uninitialized
- * extent into multiple extents (upto three - one initialized and two
+ * extent into multiple extents (up to three - one initialized and two
  * uninitialized).
  * There are three possibilities:
  *   a> There is no split required: Entire extent should be initialized
@@ -3174,7 +3174,7 @@ ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                                                    path, flags);
                 /*
                  * Flag the inode(non aio case) or end_io struct (aio case)
-                 * that this IO needs to convertion to written when IO is
+                 * that this IO needs to conversion to written when IO is
                  * completed
                  */
                 if (io && !(io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
@@ -3460,10 +3460,10 @@ int ext4_ext_map_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
                 ext4_ext_mark_uninitialized(&newex);
                 /*
                  * io_end structure was created for every IO write to an
-                 * uninitialized extent. To avoid unecessary conversion,
+                 * uninitialized extent. To avoid unnecessary conversion,
                  * here we flag the IO that really needs the conversion.
                  * For non asycn direct IO case, flag the inode state
-                 * that we need to perform convertion when IO is done.
+                 * that we need to perform conversion when IO is done.
                  */
                 if ((flags & EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_PRE_IO)) {
                         if (io && !(io->flag & EXT4_IO_END_UNWRITTEN)) {
diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
index 7f74019d6d77..4673bc05274f 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ extern int ext4_flush_completed_IO(struct inode *inode)
                  * to the work-to-be schedule is freed.
                  *
                  * Thus we need to keep the io structure still valid here after
-                 * convertion finished. The io structure has a flag to
+                 * conversion finished. The io structure has a flag to
                  * avoid double converting from both fsync and background work
                  * queue work.
                  */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 1a86282b9024..ad8e303c0d29 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2588,7 +2588,7 @@ static void ext4_end_io_buffer_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate);
  * because we should have holes filled from ext4_page_mkwrite(). We even don't
  * need to file the inode to the transaction's list in ordered mode because if
  * we are writing back data added by write(), the inode is already there and if
- * we are writing back data modified via mmap(), noone guarantees in which
+ * we are writing back data modified via mmap(), no one guarantees in which
  * transaction the data will hit the disk. In case we are journaling data, we
  * cannot start transaction directly because transaction start ranks above page
  * lock so we have to do some magic.
@@ -2690,7 +2690,7 @@ static int ext4_writepage(struct page *page,
 
 /*
  * This is called via ext4_da_writepages() to
- * calulate the total number of credits to reserve to fit
+ * calculate the total number of credits to reserve to fit
  * a single extent allocation into a single transaction,
  * ext4_da_writpeages() will loop calling this before
  * the block allocation.
@@ -3304,7 +3304,7 @@ int ext4_alloc_da_blocks(struct inode *inode)
          * the pages by calling redirty_page_for_writepage() but that
          * would be ugly in the extreme.  So instead we would need to
          * replicate parts of the code in the above functions,
-         * simplifying them becuase we wouldn't actually intend to
+         * simplifying them because we wouldn't actually intend to
          * write out the pages, but rather only collect contiguous
          * logical block extents, call the multi-block allocator, and
          * then update the buffer heads with the block allocations.
@@ -3694,7 +3694,7 @@ retry:
  *
  * The unwrritten extents will be converted to written when DIO is completed.
  * For async direct IO, since the IO may still pending when return, we
- * set up an end_io call back function, which will do the convertion
+ * set up an end_io call back function, which will do the conversion
  * when async direct IO completed.
  *
  * If the O_DIRECT write will extend the file then add this inode to the
@@ -3717,7 +3717,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
                  * We could direct write to holes and fallocate.
                  *
                  * Allocated blocks to fill the hole are marked as uninitialized
-                 * to prevent paralel buffered read to expose the stale data
+                 * to prevent parallel buffered read to expose the stale data
                  * before DIO complete the data IO.
                  *
                  * As to previously fallocated extents, ext4 get_block
@@ -3778,7 +3778,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
                         int err;
                         /*
                          * for non AIO case, since the IO is already
-                         * completed, we could do the convertion right here
+                         * completed, we could do the conversion right here
                          */
                         err = ext4_convert_unwritten_extents(inode,
                                                              offset, ret);
@@ -4025,7 +4025,7 @@ static inline int all_zeroes(__le32 *p, __le32 *q)
  *
  *      When we do truncate() we may have to clean the ends of several
  *      indirect blocks but leave the blocks themselves alive. Block is
- *      partially truncated if some data below the new i_size is refered
+ *      partially truncated if some data below the new i_size is referred
  *      from it (and it is on the path to the first completely truncated
  *      data block, indeed).  We have to free the top of that path along
  *      with everything to the right of the path. Since no allocation
@@ -4169,7 +4169,7 @@ out_err:
  * @first:      array of block numbers
  * @last:       points immediately past the end of array
  *
- * We are freeing all blocks refered from that array (numbers are stored as
+ * We are freeing all blocks referred from that array (numbers are stored as
  * little-endian 32-bit) and updating @inode->i_blocks appropriately.
  *
  * We accumulate contiguous runs of blocks to free.  Conveniently, if these
@@ -4261,7 +4261,7 @@ static void ext4_free_data(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
  *      @last:  pointer immediately past the end of array
  *      @depth: depth of the branches to free
  *
- *      We are freeing all blocks refered from these branches (numbers are
+ *      We are freeing all blocks referred from these branches (numbers are
  *      stored as little-endian 32-bit) and updating @inode->i_blocks
  *      appropriately.
  */
@@ -5478,7 +5478,7 @@ static int ext4_meta_trans_blocks(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks, int chunk)
 }
 
 /*
- * Calulate the total number of credits to reserve to fit
+ * Calculate the total number of credits to reserve to fit
  * the modification of a single pages into a single transaction,
  * which may include multiple chunks of block allocations.
  *
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index a5837a837a8b..d8a16eecf1d5 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
  * between CPUs. It is possible to get scheduled at this point.
  *
  * The locality group prealloc space is used looking at whether we have
- * enough free space (pa_free) withing the prealloc space.
+ * enough free space (pa_free) within the prealloc space.
  *
  * If we can't allocate blocks via inode prealloc or/and locality group
  * prealloc then we look at the buddy cache. The buddy cache is represented
diff --git a/fs/ext4/migrate.c b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
index d1bafa57f483..92816b4e0f16 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/migrate.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/migrate.c
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ int ext4_ext_migrate(struct inode *inode)
          * start with one credit accounted for
          * superblock modification.
          *
-         * For the tmp_inode we already have commited the
+         * For the tmp_inode we already have committed the
          * trascation that created the inode. Later as and
          * when we add extents we extent the journal
          */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 22546ad7f0ae..056474b7b8e0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ __acquires(bitlock)
          * filesystem will have already been marked read/only and the
          * journal has been aborted.  We return 1 as a hint to callers
          * who might what to use the return value from
-         * ext4_grp_locked_error() to distinguish beween the
+         * ext4_grp_locked_error() to distinguish between the
          * ERRORS_CONT and ERRORS_RO case, and perhaps return more
          * aggressively from the ext4 function in question, with a
          * more appropriate error code.
@@ -4624,7 +4624,7 @@ static int ext4_quota_off(struct super_block *sb, int type)
 
 /* Read data from quotafile - avoid pagecache and such because we cannot afford
  * acquiring the locks... As quota files are never truncated and quota code
- * itself serializes the operations (and noone else should touch the files)
+ * itself serializes the operations (and no one else should touch the files)
  * we don't have to be afraid of races */
 static ssize_t ext4_quota_read(struct super_block *sb, int type, char *data,
                                size_t len, loff_t off)
diff --git a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c
index 78948b4b1894..c9a6a94e58e9 100644
--- a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c
+++ b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_fshead.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ vxfs_read_fshead(struct super_block *sbp)
                 goto out_free_pfp;
         }
         if (!VXFS_ISILT(VXFS_INO(infp->vsi_stilist))) {
-                printk(KERN_ERR "vxfs: structual list inode is of wrong type (%x)\n",
+                printk(KERN_ERR "vxfs: structural list inode is of wrong type (%x)\n",
                                 VXFS_INO(infp->vsi_stilist)->vii_mode & VXFS_TYPE_MASK); 
                 goto out_iput_stilist;
         }
diff --git a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_lookup.c b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_lookup.c
index 6c5131d592f0..3360f1e678ad 100644
--- a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_lookup.c
+++ b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_lookup.c
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ vxfs_find_entry(struct inode *ip, struct dentry *dp, struct page **ppp)
 /**
  * vxfs_inode_by_name - find inode number for dentry
  * @dip:        directory to search in
- * @dp:         dentry we seach for
+ * @dp:         dentry we search for
  *
  * Description:
  *   vxfs_inode_by_name finds out the inode number of
diff --git a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_olt.h b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_olt.h
index d8324296486f..b7b3af502615 100644
--- a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_olt.h
+++ b/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_olt.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ enum {
  *
  * The Object Location Table header is placed at the beginning of each
  * OLT extent.  It is used to fing certain filesystem-wide metadata, e.g.
- * the inital inode list, the fileset header or the device configuration.
+ * the initial inode list, the fileset header or the device configuration.
  */
 struct vxfs_olt {
         u_int32_t       olt_magic;      /* magic number                 */
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index b5ed541fb137..34591ee804b5 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ __bdi_start_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, long nr_pages,
  *
  * Description:
  *   This does WB_SYNC_NONE opportunistic writeback. The IO is only
- *   started when this function returns, we make no guarentees on
+ *   started when this function returns, we make no guarantees on
  *   completion. Caller need not hold sb s_umount semaphore.
  *
  */
diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
index 6ea00734984e..82a66466a24c 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/file.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ static int fuse_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
                 goto out;
 
         /*
-         * Page writeback can extend beyond the liftime of the
+         * Page writeback can extend beyond the lifetime of the
          * page-cache page, so make sure we read a properly synced
          * page.
          */
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/bmap.c b/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
index ef3dc4b9fae2..74add2ddcc3f 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/bmap.c
@@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ void gfs2_trim_blocks(struct inode *inode)
  * earlier versions of GFS2 have a bug in the stuffed file reading
  * code which will result in a buffer overrun if the size is larger
  * than the max stuffed file size. In order to prevent this from
- * occuring, such files are unstuffed, but in other cases we can
+ * occurring, such files are unstuffed, but in other cases we can
  * just update the inode size directly.
  *
  * Returns: 0 on success, or -ve on error
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.c b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
index e2431313491f..f07643e21bfa 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ void gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(struct gfs2_holder *gh)
  * @number: the lock number
  * @glops: the glock operations for the type of glock
  * @state: the state to acquire the glock in
- * @flags: modifier flags for the aquisition
+ * @flags: modifier flags for the acquisition
  * @gh: the struct gfs2_holder
  *
  * Returns: errno
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/super.c b/fs/gfs2/super.c
index ec73ed70bae1..a4e23d68a398 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/super.c
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ out:
  * @sdp: the file system
  *
  * This function flushes data and meta data for all machines by
- * aquiring the transaction log exclusively.  All journals are
+ * acquiring the transaction log exclusively.  All journals are
  * ensured to be in a clean state as well.
  *
  * Returns: errno
diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
index da871ee084d3..69b180459463 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
          * we do not require it to remember exactly which old buffers it
          * has reserved.  This is consistent with the existing behaviour
          * that multiple journal_get_write_access() calls to the same
-         * buffer are perfectly permissable.
+         * buffer are perfectly permissible.
          */
         while (commit_transaction->t_reserved_list) {
                 jh = commit_transaction->t_reserved_list;
diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c
index eb11601f2e00..b3713afaaa9e 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ journal_t * journal_init_dev(struct block_device *bdev,
         journal->j_wbufsize = n;
         journal->j_wbuf = kmalloc(n * sizeof(struct buffer_head*), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!journal->j_wbuf) {
-                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cant allocate bhs for commit thread\n",
+                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Can't allocate bhs for commit thread\n",
                         __func__);
                 goto out_err;
         }
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ journal_t * journal_init_inode (struct inode *inode)
         journal->j_wbufsize = n;
         journal->j_wbuf = kmalloc(n * sizeof(struct buffer_head*), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!journal->j_wbuf) {
-                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cant allocate bhs for commit thread\n",
+                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Can't allocate bhs for commit thread\n",
                         __func__);
                 goto out_err;
         }
diff --git a/fs/jbd/revoke.c b/fs/jbd/revoke.c
index d29018307e2e..305a90763154 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/revoke.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/revoke.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
  * switching hash tables under them. For operations on the lists of entries in
  * the hash table j_revoke_lock is used.
  *
- * Finally, also replay code uses the hash tables but at this moment noone else
+ * Finally, also replay code uses the hash tables but at this moment no one else
  * can touch them (filesystem isn't mounted yet) and hence no locking is
  * needed.
  */
diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
index 5b2e4c30a2a1..60d2319651b2 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ int journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
          * by 30x or more...
          *
          * We try and optimize the sleep time against what the underlying disk
-         * can do, instead of having a static sleep time.  This is usefull for
+         * can do, instead of having a static sleep time.  This is useful for
          * the case where our storage is so fast that it is more optimal to go
          * ahead and force a flush and wait for the transaction to be committed
          * than it is to wait for an arbitrary amount of time for new writers to
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index fa36d7662b21..20af62f4304b 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
          * we do not require it to remember exactly which old buffers it
          * has reserved.  This is consistent with the existing behaviour
          * that multiple jbd2_journal_get_write_access() calls to the same
-         * buffer are perfectly permissable.
+         * buffer are perfectly permissible.
          */
         while (commit_transaction->t_reserved_list) {
                 jh = commit_transaction->t_reserved_list;
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 90407b8fece7..aba8ebaec25c 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ journal_t * jbd2_journal_init_dev(struct block_device *bdev,
         journal->j_wbufsize = n;
         journal->j_wbuf = kmalloc(n * sizeof(struct buffer_head*), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!journal->j_wbuf) {
-                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cant allocate bhs for commit thread\n",
+                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Can't allocate bhs for commit thread\n",
                         __func__);
                 goto out_err;
         }
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ journal_t * jbd2_journal_init_inode (struct inode *inode)
         journal->j_wbufsize = n;
         journal->j_wbuf = kmalloc(n * sizeof(struct buffer_head*), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!journal->j_wbuf) {
-                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cant allocate bhs for commit thread\n",
+                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Can't allocate bhs for commit thread\n",
                         __func__);
                 goto out_err;
         }
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/revoke.c b/fs/jbd2/revoke.c
index 9ad321fd63fd..69fd93588118 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/revoke.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/revoke.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
  * switching hash tables under them. For operations on the lists of entries in
  * the hash table j_revoke_lock is used.
  *
- * Finally, also replay code uses the hash tables but at this moment noone else
+ * Finally, also replay code uses the hash tables but at this moment no one else
  * can touch them (filesystem isn't mounted yet) and hence no locking is
  * needed.
  */
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 1d1191050f99..05fa77a23711 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_stop(handle_t *handle)
 
         /*
          * Once we drop t_updates, if it goes to zero the transaction
-         * could start commiting on us and eventually disappear.  So
+         * could start committing on us and eventually disappear.  So
          * once we do this, we must not dereference transaction
          * pointer again.
          */
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/TODO b/fs/jffs2/TODO
index 5d3ea4070f01..ca28964abd4b 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/TODO
+++ b/fs/jffs2/TODO
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  - checkpointing (do we need this? scan is quite fast)
  - make the scan code populate real inodes so read_inode just after 
         mount doesn't have to read the flash twice for large files.
-        Make this a per-inode option, changable with chattr, so you can
+        Make this a per-inode option, changeable with chattr, so you can
         decide which inodes should be in-core immediately after mount.
  - test, test, test
 
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
index d32ee9412cb9..2ab1a0d91210 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
  *
  * Returns: 0 if the data CRC is correct;
  *          1 - if incorrect;
- *          error code if an error occured.
+ *          error code if an error occurred.
  */
 static int check_node_data(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_tmp_dnode_info *tn)
 {
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/summary.c b/fs/jffs2/summary.c
index 800171dca53b..e537fb0e0184 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/summary.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/summary.c
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ int jffs2_sum_add_inode_mem(struct jffs2_summary *s, struct jffs2_raw_inode *ri,
         temp->nodetype = ri->nodetype;
         temp->inode = ri->ino;
         temp->version = ri->version;
-        temp->offset = cpu_to_je32(ofs); /* relative offset from the begining of the jeb */
+        temp->offset = cpu_to_je32(ofs); /* relative offset from the beginning of the jeb */
         temp->totlen = ri->totlen;
         temp->next = NULL;
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ int jffs2_sum_add_dirent_mem(struct jffs2_summary *s, struct jffs2_raw_dirent *r
 
         temp->nodetype = rd->nodetype;
         temp->totlen = rd->totlen;
-        temp->offset = cpu_to_je32(ofs);        /* relative from the begining of the jeb */
+        temp->offset = cpu_to_je32(ofs);        /* relative from the beginning of the jeb */
         temp->pino = rd->pino;
         temp->version = rd->version;
         temp->ino = rd->ino;
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
index 07ee1546b2fa..4515bea0268f 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/wbuf.c
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ int jffs2_write_nand_cleanmarker(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
 
 /*
  * On NAND we try to mark this block bad. If the block was erased more
- * than MAX_ERASE_FAILURES we mark it finaly bad.
+ * than MAX_ERASE_FAILURES we mark it finally bad.
  * Don't care about failures. This block remains on the erase-pending
  * or badblock list as long as nobody manipulates the flash with
  * a bootloader or something like that.
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c
index c92ea3b3ea5e..4496872cf4e7 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c
@@ -1649,7 +1649,7 @@ static int dbFindCtl(struct bmap * bmp, int l2nb, int level, s64 * blkno)
                 }
 
                 /* search the tree within the dmap control page for
-                 * sufficent free space.  if sufficient free space is found,
+                 * sufficient free space.  if sufficient free space is found,
                  * dbFindLeaf() returns the index of the leaf at which
                  * free space was found.
                  */
@@ -2744,7 +2744,7 @@ static int dbJoin(dmtree_t * tp, int leafno, int newval)
                         /* check which (leafno or buddy) is the left buddy.
                          * the left buddy gets to claim the blocks resulting
                          * from the join while the right gets to claim none.
-                         * the left buddy is also eligable to participate in
+                         * the left buddy is also eligible to participate in
                          * a join at the next higher level while the right
                          * is not.
                          *
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_extent.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_extent.c
index 5d3bbd10f8db..e5fe8506ed16 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_extent.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_extent.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ extAlloc(struct inode *ip, s64 xlen, s64 pno, xad_t * xp, bool abnr)
 
         /* allocate the disk blocks for the extent.  initially, extBalloc()
          * will try to allocate disk blocks for the requested size (xlen).
-         * if this fails (xlen contiguous free blocks not avaliable), it'll
+         * if this fails (xlen contiguous free blocks not available), it'll
          * try to allocate a smaller number of blocks (producing a smaller
          * extent), with this smaller number of blocks consisting of the
          * requested number of blocks rounded down to the next smaller
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ int extFill(struct inode *ip, xad_t * xp)
  *
  *              initially, we will try to allocate disk blocks for the
  *              requested size (nblocks).  if this fails (nblocks
- *              contiguous free blocks not avaliable), we'll try to allocate
+ *              contiguous free blocks not available), we'll try to allocate
  *              a smaller number of blocks (producing a smaller extent), with
  *              this smaller number of blocks consisting of the requested
  *              number of blocks rounded down to the next smaller power of 2
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ extBalloc(struct inode *ip, s64 hint, s64 * nblocks, s64 * blkno)
  *              to a new set of blocks.  If moving the extent, we initially
  *              will try to allocate disk blocks for the requested size
  *              (newnblks).  if this fails (new contiguous free blocks not
- *              avaliable), we'll try to allocate a smaller number of
+ *              available), we'll try to allocate a smaller number of
  *              blocks (producing a smaller extent), with this smaller
  *              number of blocks consisting of the requested number of
  *              blocks rounded down to the next smaller power of 2
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
index 3a09423b6c22..ed53a4740168 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ int diFree(struct inode *ip)
                  */
                 if (iagp->nfreeexts == cpu_to_le32(EXTSPERIAG - 1)) {
                         /* in preparation for removing the iag from the
-                         * ag extent free list, read the iags preceeding
+                         * ag extent free list, read the iags preceding
                          * and following the iag on the ag extent free
                          * list.
                          */
@@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ int diFree(struct inode *ip)
                 int inofreefwd = le32_to_cpu(iagp->inofreefwd);
 
                 /* in preparation for removing the iag from the
-                 * ag inode free list, read the iags preceeding
+                 * ag inode free list, read the iags preceding
                  * and following the iag on the ag inode free
                  * list.  before reading these iags, we must make
                  * sure that we already don't have them in hand
@@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@ diAllocAG(struct inomap * imap, int agno, bool dir, struct inode *ip)
          * try to allocate a new extent of free inodes.
          */
         if (addext) {
-                /* if free space is not avaliable for this new extent, try
+                /* if free space is not available for this new extent, try
                  * below to allocate a free and existing (already backed)
                  * inode from the ag.
                  */
@@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ static int diAllocBit(struct inomap * imap, struct iag * iagp, int ino)
 
         /* check if this is the last free inode within the iag.
          * if so, it will have to be removed from the ag free
-         * inode list, so get the iags preceeding and following
+         * inode list, so get the iags preceding and following
          * it on the list.
          */
         if (iagp->nfreeinos == cpu_to_le32(1)) {
@@ -2208,7 +2208,7 @@ static int diNewExt(struct inomap * imap, struct iag * iagp, int extno)
 
         /* check if this is the last free extent within the
          * iag.  if so, the iag must be removed from the ag
-         * free extent list, so get the iags preceeding and
+         * free extent list, so get the iags preceding and
          * following the iag on this list.
          */
         if (iagp->nfreeexts == cpu_to_le32(1)) {
@@ -2504,7 +2504,7 @@ diNewIAG(struct inomap * imap, int *iagnop, int agno, struct metapage ** mpp)
                 }
 
 
-                /* get the next avaliable iag number */
+                /* get the next available iag number */
                 iagno = imap->im_nextiag;
 
                 /* make sure that we have not exceeded the maximum inode
@@ -2615,7 +2615,7 @@ diNewIAG(struct inomap * imap, int *iagnop, int agno, struct metapage ** mpp)
 
                 duplicateIXtree(sb, blkno, xlen, &xaddr);
 
-                /* update the next avaliable iag number */
+                /* update the next available iag number */
                 imap->im_nextiag += 1;
 
                 /* Add the iag to the iag free list so we don't lose the iag
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h
index 9236bc49ae7f..e38c21598850 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.h
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ struct lrd {
                 /*
                  *      SYNCPT: log sync point
                  *
-                 * replay log upto syncpt address specified;
+                 * replay log up to syncpt address specified;
                  */
                 struct {
                         __le32 sync;    /* 4: syncpt address (0 = here) */
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.h b/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.h
index d94f8d9e87d7..a78beda85f68 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.h
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ extern void grab_metapage(struct metapage *);
 extern void force_metapage(struct metapage *);
 
 /*
- * hold_metapage and put_metapage are used in conjuction.  The page lock
+ * hold_metapage and put_metapage are used in conjunction.  The page lock
  * is not dropped between the two, so no other threads can get or release
  * the metapage
  */
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c
index 9466957ec841..f6cc0c09ec63 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_txnmgr.c
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ struct tlock *txLock(tid_t tid, struct inode *ip, struct metapage * mp,
          * the inode of the page and available to all anonymous
          * transactions until txCommit() time at which point
          * they are transferred to the transaction tlock list of
-         * the commiting transaction of the inode)
+         * the committing transaction of the inode)
          */
         if (xtid == 0) {
                 tlck->tid = tid;
diff --git a/fs/jfs/resize.c b/fs/jfs/resize.c
index 1aba0039f1c9..8ea5efb5a34e 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/resize.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/resize.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
  * 2. compute new FSCKSize from new LVSize;
  * 3. set new FSSize as MIN(FSSize, LVSize-(LogSize+FSCKSize)) where
  *    assert(new FSSize >= old FSSize),
- *    i.e., file system must not be shrinked;
+ *    i.e., file system must not be shrunk;
  */
 int jfs_extendfs(struct super_block *sb, s64 newLVSize, int newLogSize)
 {
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ int jfs_extendfs(struct super_block *sb, s64 newLVSize, int newLogSize)
          */
         newFSSize = newLVSize - newLogSize - newFSCKSize;
 
-        /* file system cannot be shrinked */
+        /* file system cannot be shrunk */
         if (newFSSize < bmp->db_mapsize) {
                 rc = -EINVAL;
                 goto out;
diff --git a/fs/jfs/super.c b/fs/jfs/super.c
index eeca48a031ab..06c8a67cbe76 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/super.c
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ static int jfs_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct vfsmount *vfs)
 
 /* Read data from quotafile - avoid pagecache and such because we cannot afford
  * acquiring the locks... As quota files are never truncated and quota code
- * itself serializes the operations (and noone else should touch the files)
+ * itself serializes the operations (and no one else should touch the files)
  * we don't have to be afraid of races */
 static ssize_t jfs_quota_read(struct super_block *sb, int type, char *data,
                               size_t len, loff_t off)
diff --git a/fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c b/fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c
index 7466e9dcc8c5..339e17e9133d 100644
--- a/fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c
+++ b/fs/logfs/dev_mtd.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int mtd_write(struct super_block *sb, loff_t ofs, size_t len, void *buf)
  * asynchronous properties.  So just to prevent the first implementor of such
  * a thing from breaking logfs in 2350, we do the usual pointless dance to
  * declare a completion variable and wait for completion before returning
- * from mtd_erase().  What an excercise in futility!
+ * from mtd_erase().  What an exercise in futility!
  */
 static void logfs_erase_callback(struct erase_info *ei)
 {
diff --git a/fs/logfs/dir.c b/fs/logfs/dir.c
index f9ddf0c388c8..9ed89d1663f8 100644
--- a/fs/logfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/logfs/dir.c
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static int beyond_eof(struct inode *inode, loff_t bix)
  * so short names (len <= 9) don't even occupy the complete 32bit name
  * space.  A prime >256 ensures short names quickly spread the 32bit
  * name space.  Add about 26 for the estimated amount of information
- * of each character and pick a prime nearby, preferrably a bit-sparse
+ * of each character and pick a prime nearby, preferably a bit-sparse
  * one.
  */
 static u32 hash_32(const char *s, int len, u32 seed)
diff --git a/fs/logfs/readwrite.c b/fs/logfs/readwrite.c
index ee99a9f5dfd3..9e22085231b3 100644
--- a/fs/logfs/readwrite.c
+++ b/fs/logfs/readwrite.c
@@ -1616,7 +1616,7 @@ int logfs_rewrite_block(struct inode *inode, u64 bix, u64 ofs,
                 err = logfs_write_buf(inode, page, flags);
                 if (!err && shrink_level(gc_level) == 0) {
                         /* Rewrite cannot mark the inode dirty but has to
-                         * write it immediatly.
+                         * write it immediately.
                          * Q: Can't we just create an alias for the inode
                          * instead?  And if not, why not?
                          */
diff --git a/fs/mbcache.c b/fs/mbcache.c
index a25444ab2baf..2f174be06555 100644
--- a/fs/mbcache.c
+++ b/fs/mbcache.c
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ __mb_cache_entry_find(struct list_head *l, struct list_head *head,
  * mb_cache_entry_find_first()
  *
  * Find the first cache entry on a given device with a certain key in
- * an additional index. Additonal matches can be found with
+ * an additional index. Additional matches can be found with
  * mb_cache_entry_find_next(). Returns NULL if no match was found. The
  * returned cache entry is locked for shared access ("multiple readers").
  *
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 3cb616d38d9c..e6cd6113872c 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
  * name indicated by the symlink. The old code always complained that the
  * name already exists, due to not following the symlink even if its target
  * is nonexistent.  The new semantics affects also mknod() and link() when
- * the name is a symlink pointing to a non-existant name.
+ * the name is a symlink pointing to a non-existent name.
  *
  * I don't know which semantics is the right one, since I have no access
  * to standards. But I found by trial that HP-UX 9.0 has the full "new"
diff --git a/fs/ncpfs/inode.c b/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
index 00a1d1c3d3a4..0250e4ce4893 100644
--- a/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ncpfs/inode.c
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ static int ncp_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *raw_data, int silent)
 /*      server->priv.data = NULL;               */
 
         server->m = data;
-        /* Althought anything producing this is buggy, it happens
+        /* Although anything producing this is buggy, it happens
            now because of PATH_MAX changes.. */
         if (server->m.time_out < 1) {
                 server->m.time_out = 10;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c b/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c
index 14e0f9371d14..00ecf62ce7c1 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static __be32 decode_layoutrecall_args(struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
 
         args->cbl_layout_type = ntohl(*p++);
         /* Depite the spec's xdr, iomode really belongs in the FILE switch,
-         * as it is unuseable and ignored with the other types.
+         * as it is unusable and ignored with the other types.
          */
         iomode = ntohl(*p++);
         args->cbl_layoutchanged = ntohl(*p++);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index 3ac5bd695e5e..2f093ed16980 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ nfs_file_mmap(struct file * file, struct vm_area_struct * vma)
  * disk, but it retrieves and clears ctx->error after synching, despite
  * the two being set at the same time in nfs_context_set_write_error().
  * This is because the former is used to notify the _next_ call to
- * nfs_file_write() that a write error occured, and hence cause it to
+ * nfs_file_write() that a write error occurred, and hence cause it to
  * fall back to doing a synchronous write.
  */
 static int
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.h b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.h
index 085a354e0f08..7c44579f5832 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4filelayout.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 #include "pnfs.h"
 
 /*
- * Field testing shows we need to support upto 4096 stripe indices.
+ * Field testing shows we need to support up to 4096 stripe indices.
  * We store each index as a u8 (u32 on the wire) to keep the memory footprint
  * reasonable. This in turn means we support a maximum of 256
  * RFC 5661 multipath_list4 structures.
diff --git a/fs/nfs_common/nfsacl.c b/fs/nfs_common/nfsacl.c
index ec0f277be7f5..6940439bd609 100644
--- a/fs/nfs_common/nfsacl.c
+++ b/fs/nfs_common/nfsacl.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ xdr_nfsace_decode(struct xdr_array2_desc *desc, void *elem)
                                 return -EINVAL;
                         break;
                 case ACL_MASK:
-                        /* Solaris sometimes sets additonal bits in the mask */
+                        /* Solaris sometimes sets additional bits in the mask */
                         entry->e_perm &= S_IRWXO;
                         break;
                 default:
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
index 7e84a852cdae..ad48faca20fc 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ nfs3svc_encode_readres(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p,
                 *p++ = htonl(resp->eof);
                 *p++ = htonl(resp->count);      /* xdr opaque count */
                 xdr_ressize_check(rqstp, p);
-                /* now update rqstp->rq_res to reflect data aswell */
+                /* now update rqstp->rq_res to reflect data as well */
                 rqstp->rq_res.page_len = resp->count;
                 if (resp->count & 3) {
                         /* need to pad the tail */
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index fbde6f79922e..4b36ec3eb8ea 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -3055,7 +3055,7 @@ check_special_stateids(svc_fh *current_fh, stateid_t *stateid, int flags)
         if (ONE_STATEID(stateid) && (flags & RD_STATE))
                 return nfs_ok;
         else if (locks_in_grace()) {
-                /* Answer in remaining cases depends on existance of
+                /* Answer in remaining cases depends on existence of
                  * conflicting state; so we must wait out the grace period. */
                 return nfserr_grace;
         } else if (flags & WR_STATE)
@@ -3675,7 +3675,7 @@ find_lockstateowner_str(struct inode *inode, clientid_t *clid,
 /*
  * Alloc a lock owner structure.
  * Called in nfsd4_lock - therefore, OPEN and OPEN_CONFIRM (if needed) has 
- * occured. 
+ * occurred. 
  *
  * strhashval = lock_ownerstr_hashval 
  */
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c
index 4ce005dbf3e6..65ec595e2226 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ nfssvc_encode_readres(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p,
         *p++ = htonl(resp->count);
         xdr_ressize_check(rqstp, p);
 
-        /* now update rqstp->rq_res to reflect data aswell */
+        /* now update rqstp->rq_res to reflect data as well */
         rqstp->rq_res.page_len = resp->count;
         if (resp->count & 3) {
                 /* need to pad the tail */
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 6b1305dc26c0..9fde1c00a296 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static int process_access_response(struct fsnotify_group *group,
                  fd, response);
         /*
          * make sure the response is valid, if invalid we do nothing and either
-         * userspace can send a valid responce or we will clean it up after the
+         * userspace can send a valid response or we will clean it up after the
          * timeout
          */
         switch (response) {
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
index 0348d0c8f65e..e3cbd746f64a 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static int idr_callback(int id, void *p, void *data)
 
 static void inotify_free_group_priv(struct fsnotify_group *group)
 {
-        /* ideally the idr is empty and we won't hit the BUG in teh callback */
+        /* ideally the idr is empty and we won't hit the BUG in the callback */
         idr_for_each(&group->inotify_data.idr, idr_callback, group);
         idr_remove_all(&group->inotify_data.idr);
         idr_destroy(&group->inotify_data.idr);
diff --git a/fs/notify/mark.c b/fs/notify/mark.c
index 50c00856f730..252ab1f6452b 100644
--- a/fs/notify/mark.c
+++ b/fs/notify/mark.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
  * referencing this object.  The object typically will live inside the kernel
  * with a refcnt of 2, one for each list it is on (i_list, g_list).  Any task
  * which can find this object holding the appropriete locks, can take a reference
- * and the object itself is guarenteed to survive until the reference is dropped.
+ * and the object itself is guaranteed to survive until the reference is dropped.
  *
  * LOCKING:
  * There are 3 spinlocks involved with fsnotify inode marks and they MUST
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
index f5094ee224c1..f14fde2b03d6 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ err_out:
         } else if (ctx_needs_reset) {
                 /*
                  * If there is no attribute list, restoring the search context
-                 * is acomplished simply by copying the saved context back over
+                 * is accomplished simply by copying the saved context back over
                  * the caller supplied context.  If there is an attribute list,
                  * things are more complicated as we need to deal with mapping
                  * of mft records and resulting potential changes in pointers.
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ not_found:
  * for, i.e. if one wants to add the attribute to the mft record this is the
  * correct place to insert its attribute list entry into.
  *
- * When -errno != -ENOENT, an error occured during the lookup.  @ctx->attr is
+ * When -errno != -ENOENT, an error occurred during the lookup.  @ctx->attr is
  * then undefined and in particular you should not rely on it not changing.
  */
 int ntfs_attr_lookup(const ATTR_TYPE type, const ntfschar *name,
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/compress.c b/fs/ntfs/compress.c
index ef9ed854255c..ee4144ce5d7c 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/compress.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/compress.c
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ int ntfs_read_compressed_block(struct page *page)
         VCN start_vcn = (((s64)index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) & ~cb_size_mask) >>
                         vol->cluster_size_bits;
         /*
-         * The first vcn after the last wanted vcn (minumum alignment is again
+         * The first vcn after the last wanted vcn (minimum alignment is again
          * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.
          */
         VCN end_vcn = ((((s64)(index + 1UL) << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) + cb_size - 1)
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
index 0b56c6b7ec01..c05d6dcf77a4 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ static int ntfs_read_locked_inode(struct inode *vi)
          */
         /* Everyone gets all permissions. */
         vi->i_mode |= S_IRWXUGO;
-        /* If read-only, noone gets write permissions. */
+        /* If read-only, no one gets write permissions. */
         if (IS_RDONLY(vi))
                 vi->i_mode &= ~S_IWUGO;
         if (m->flags & MFT_RECORD_IS_DIRECTORY) {
@@ -2529,7 +2529,7 @@ retry_truncate:
                  * specifies that the behaviour is unspecified thus we do not
                  * have to do anything.  This means that in our implementation
                  * in the rare case that the file is mmap()ped and a write
-                 * occured into the mmap()ped region just beyond the file size
+                 * occurred into the mmap()ped region just beyond the file size
                  * and writepage has not yet been called to write out the page
                  * (which would clear the area beyond the file size) and we now
                  * extend the file size to incorporate this dirty region
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/layout.h b/fs/ntfs/layout.h
index 8b2549f672bf..faece7190866 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/layout.h
+++ b/fs/ntfs/layout.h
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ typedef le16 MFT_RECORD_FLAGS;
  * fragmented. Volume free space includes the empty part of the mft zone and
  * when the volume's free 88% are used up, the mft zone is shrunk by a factor
  * of 2, thus making more space available for more files/data. This process is
- * repeated everytime there is no more free space except for the mft zone until
+ * repeated every time there is no more free space except for the mft zone until
  * there really is no more free space.
  */
 
@@ -1657,13 +1657,13 @@ typedef enum {
  *      pointed to by the Owner field was provided by a defaulting mechanism
  *      rather than explicitly provided by the original provider of the
  *      security descriptor.  This may affect the treatment of the SID with
- *      respect to inheritence of an owner.
+ *      respect to inheritance of an owner.
  *
  * SE_GROUP_DEFAULTED - This boolean flag, when set, indicates that the SID in
  *      the Group field was provided by a defaulting mechanism rather than
  *      explicitly provided by the original provider of the security
  *      descriptor.  This may affect the treatment of the SID with respect to
- *      inheritence of a primary group.
+ *      inheritance of a primary group.
  *
  * SE_DACL_PRESENT - This boolean flag, when set, indicates that the security
  *      descriptor contains a discretionary ACL.  If this flag is set and the
@@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@ typedef enum {
  *      pointed to by the Dacl field was provided by a defaulting mechanism
  *      rather than explicitly provided by the original provider of the
  *      security descriptor.  This may affect the treatment of the ACL with
- *      respect to inheritence of an ACL.  This flag is ignored if the
+ *      respect to inheritance of an ACL.  This flag is ignored if the
  *      DaclPresent flag is not set.
  *
  * SE_SACL_PRESENT - This boolean flag, when set,  indicates that the security
@@ -1686,7 +1686,7 @@ typedef enum {
  *      pointed to by the Sacl field was provided by a defaulting mechanism
  *      rather than explicitly provided by the original provider of the
  *      security descriptor.  This may affect the treatment of the ACL with
- *      respect to inheritence of an ACL.  This flag is ignored if the
+ *      respect to inheritance of an ACL.  This flag is ignored if the
  *      SaclPresent flag is not set.
  *
  * SE_SELF_RELATIVE - This boolean flag, when set, indicates that the security
@@ -2283,7 +2283,7 @@ typedef struct {
         //                 the key_length is zero, then the vcn immediately
         //                 follows the INDEX_ENTRY_HEADER. Regardless of
         //                 key_length, the address of the 8-byte boundary
-        //                 alligned vcn of INDEX_ENTRY{_HEADER} *ie is given by
+        //                 aligned vcn of INDEX_ENTRY{_HEADER} *ie is given by
         //                 (char*)ie + le16_to_cpu(ie*)->length) - sizeof(VCN),
         //                 where sizeof(VCN) can be hardcoded as 8 if wanted. */
 } __attribute__ ((__packed__)) INDEX_ENTRY;
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/logfile.c b/fs/ntfs/logfile.c
index 4dadcdf3d451..c71de292c5ad 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/logfile.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/logfile.c
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ err_out:
  * of cases where we think that a volume is dirty when in fact it is clean.
  * This should only affect volumes that have not been shutdown cleanly but did
  * not have any pending, non-check-pointed i/o, i.e. they were completely idle
- * at least for the five seconds preceeding the unclean shutdown.
+ * at least for the five seconds preceding the unclean shutdown.
  *
  * This function assumes that the $LogFile journal has already been consistency
  * checked by a call to ntfs_check_logfile() and in particular if the $LogFile
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/logfile.h b/fs/ntfs/logfile.h
index b5a6f08bd35c..aa2b6ac3f0a4 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/logfile.h
+++ b/fs/ntfs/logfile.h
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ typedef struct {
 /* 24*/ sle64 file_size;        /* Usable byte size of the log file.  If the
                                    restart_area_offset + the offset of the
                                    file_size are > 510 then corruption has
-                                   occured.  This is the very first check when
+                                   occurred.  This is the very first check when
                                    starting with the restart_area as if it
                                    fails it means that some of the above values
                                    will be corrupted by the multi sector
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/mft.c b/fs/ntfs/mft.c
index 326e7475a22a..382857f9c7db 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/mft.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/mft.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static inline MFT_RECORD *map_mft_record_page(ntfs_inode *ni)
                 if (index > end_index || (i_size & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK) < ofs +
                                 vol->mft_record_size) {
                         page = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-                        ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Attemt to read mft record 0x%lx, "
+                        ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Attempt to read mft record 0x%lx, "
                                         "which is beyond the end of the mft.  "
                                         "This is probably a bug in the ntfs "
                                         "driver.", ni->mft_no);
@@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ static int ntfs_mft_bitmap_extend_allocation_nolock(ntfs_volume *vol)
                 // Note: It will need to be a special mft record and if none of
                 // those are available it gets rather complicated...
                 ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Not enough space in this mft record to "
-                                "accomodate extended mft bitmap attribute "
+                                "accommodate extended mft bitmap attribute "
                                 "extent.  Cannot handle this yet.");
                 ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
                 goto undo_alloc;
@@ -1879,7 +1879,7 @@ static int ntfs_mft_data_extend_allocation_nolock(ntfs_volume *vol)
                 // and we would then need to update all references to this mft
                 // record appropriately.  This is rather complicated...
                 ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Not enough space in this mft record to "
-                                "accomodate extended mft data attribute "
+                                "accommodate extended mft data attribute "
                                 "extent.  Cannot handle this yet.");
                 ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
                 goto undo_alloc;
@@ -2357,7 +2357,7 @@ ntfs_inode *ntfs_mft_record_alloc(ntfs_volume *vol, const int mode,
         }
 #ifdef DEBUG
         read_lock_irqsave(&mftbmp_ni->size_lock, flags);
-        ntfs_debug("Status of mftbmp after initialized extention: "
+        ntfs_debug("Status of mftbmp after initialized extension: "
                         "allocated_size 0x%llx, data_size 0x%llx, "
                         "initialized_size 0x%llx.",
                         (long long)mftbmp_ni->allocated_size,
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c
index 56a9a6d25a2a..eac7d6788a10 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c
@@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@ err_out:
  * write.
  *
  * This is used when building the mapping pairs array of a runlist to compress
- * a given logical cluster number (lcn) or a specific run length to the minumum
+ * a given logical cluster number (lcn) or a specific run length to the minimum
  * size possible.
  *
  * Return the number of bytes written on success.  On error, i.e. the
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/super.c b/fs/ntfs/super.c
index 29099a07b9fe..b52706da4645 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/super.c
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ static int ntfs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *opt)
          * the volume on boot and updates them.
          *
          * When remounting read-only, mark the volume clean if no volume errors
-         * have occured.
+         * have occurred.
          */
         if ((sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && !(*flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
                 static const char *es = ".  Cannot remount read-write.";
@@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ static int check_windows_hibernation_status(ntfs_volume *vol)
                                         "hibernated on the volume.");
                         return 0;
                 }
-                /* A real error occured. */
+                /* A real error occurred. */
                 ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Failed to find inode number for "
                                 "hiberfil.sys.");
                 return ret;
@@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ static bool load_and_init_quota(ntfs_volume *vol)
                         NVolSetQuotaOutOfDate(vol);
                         return true;
                 }
-                /* A real error occured. */
+                /* A real error occurred. */
                 ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Failed to find inode number for $Quota.");
                 return false;
         }
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ not_enabled:
                         NVolSetUsnJrnlStamped(vol);
                         return true;
                 }
-                /* A real error occured. */
+                /* A real error occurred. */
                 ntfs_error(vol->sb, "Failed to find inode number for "
                                 "$UsnJrnl.");
                 return false;
@@ -2292,7 +2292,7 @@ static void ntfs_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
         ntfs_commit_inode(vol->mft_ino);
 
         /*
-         * If a read-write mount and no volume errors have occured, mark the
+         * If a read-write mount and no volume errors have occurred, mark the
          * volume clean.  Also, re-commit all affected inodes.
          */
         if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
@@ -2496,7 +2496,7 @@ static s64 get_nr_free_clusters(ntfs_volume *vol)
         if (vol->nr_clusters & 63)
                 nr_free += 64 - (vol->nr_clusters & 63);
         up_read(&vol->lcnbmp_lock);
-        /* If errors occured we may well have gone below zero, fix this. */
+        /* If errors occurred we may well have gone below zero, fix this. */
         if (nr_free < 0)
                 nr_free = 0;
         ntfs_debug("Exiting.");
@@ -2561,7 +2561,7 @@ static unsigned long __get_nr_free_mft_records(ntfs_volume *vol,
         }
         ntfs_debug("Finished reading $MFT/$BITMAP, last index = 0x%lx.",
                         index - 1);
-        /* If errors occured we may well have gone below zero, fix this. */
+        /* If errors occurred we may well have gone below zero, fix this. */
         if (nr_free < 0)
                 nr_free = 0;
         ntfs_debug("Exiting.");
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c b/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
index b27a0d86f8c5..48aa9c7401c7 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
@@ -4519,7 +4519,7 @@ set_tail_append:
 }
 
 /*
- * Helper function called at the begining of an insert.
+ * Helper function called at the beginning of an insert.
  *
  * This computes a few things that are commonly used in the process of
  * inserting into the btree:
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/aops.h b/fs/ocfs2/aops.h
index eceb456037c1..75cf3ad987a6 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/aops.h
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static inline void ocfs2_iocb_set_rw_locked(struct kiocb *iocb, int level)
 
 /*
  * Using a named enum representing lock types in terms of #N bit stored in
- * iocb->private, which is going to be used for communication bewteen
+ * iocb->private, which is going to be used for communication between
  * ocfs2_dio_end_io() and ocfs2_file_aio_write/read().
  */
 enum ocfs2_iocb_lock_bits {
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c
index 2461eb3272ed..643720209a98 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c
@@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ void o2hb_free_hb_set(struct config_group *group)
         kfree(hs);
 }
 
-/* hb callback registration and issueing */
+/* hb callback registration and issuing */
 
 static struct o2hb_callback *hbcall_from_type(enum o2hb_callback_type type)
 {
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/quorum.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/quorum.c
index a87366750f23..8f9cea1597af 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/quorum.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/quorum.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static void o2quo_fence_self(void)
         };
 }
 
-/* Indicate that a timeout occured on a hearbeat region write. The
+/* Indicate that a timeout occurred on a hearbeat region write. The
  * other nodes in the cluster may consider us dead at that time so we
  * want to "fence" ourselves so that we don't scribble on the disk
  * after they think they've recovered us. This can't solve all
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ void o2quo_hb_still_up(u8 node)
         spin_unlock(&qs->qs_lock);
 }
 
-/* This is analagous to hb_up.  as a node's connection comes up we delay the
+/* This is analogous to hb_up.  as a node's connection comes up we delay the
  * quorum decision until we see it heartbeating.  the hold will be droped in
  * hb_up or hb_down.  it might be perpetuated by con_err until hb_down.  if
  * it's already heartbeating we we might be dropping a hold that conn_up got.
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c
index ee04ff5ee603..db5ee4b4f47a 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ static void o2net_set_nn_state(struct o2net_node *nn,
          * the work queue actually being up. */
         if (!valid && o2net_wq) {
                 unsigned long delay;
-                /* delay if we're withing a RECONNECT_DELAY of the
+                /* delay if we're within a RECONNECT_DELAY of the
                  * last attempt */
                 delay = (nn->nn_last_connect_attempt +
                          msecs_to_jiffies(o2net_reconnect_delay()))
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c
index 9d67610dfc74..fede57ed005f 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ lookup:
                                 dlm_mle_detach_hb_events(dlm, mle);
                         dlm_put_mle(mle);
                         mle = NULL;
-                        /* this is lame, but we cant wait on either
+                        /* this is lame, but we can't wait on either
                          * the mle or lockres waitqueue here */
                         if (mig)
                                 msleep(100);
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ lookup:
 
         /* finally add the lockres to its hash bucket */
         __dlm_insert_lockres(dlm, res);
-        /* since this lockres is new it doesnt not require the spinlock */
+        /* since this lockres is new it doesn't not require the spinlock */
         dlm_lockres_grab_inflight_ref_new(dlm, res);
 
         /* if this node does not become the master make sure to drop
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
index 177d3a6c2a5f..b4c8bb6b8d28 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ static int ocfs2_inode_is_valid_to_delete(struct inode *inode)
 
         /* If we have allowd wipe of this inode for another node, it
          * will be marked here so we can safely skip it. Recovery will
-         * cleanup any inodes we might inadvertantly skip here. */
+         * cleanup any inodes we might inadvertently skip here. */
         if (oi->ip_flags & OCFS2_INODE_SKIP_DELETE)
                 goto bail_unlock;
 
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ static int ocfs2_query_inode_wipe(struct inode *inode,
          * the inode open lock in ocfs2_read_locked_inode(). When we
          * get to ->delete_inode(), each node tries to convert it's
          * lock to an exclusive. Trylocks are serialized by the inode
-         * meta data lock. If the upconvert suceeds, we know the inode
+         * meta data lock. If the upconvert succeeds, we know the inode
          * is no longer live and can be deleted.
          *
          * Though we call this with the meta data lock held, the
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
index dcc2d9327150..b141a44605ca 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ skip_recovery:
                 mlog_errno(status);
 
         /* Now it is right time to recover quotas... We have to do this under
-         * superblock lock so that noone can start using the slot (and crash)
+         * superblock lock so that no one can start using the slot (and crash)
          * before we recover it */
         for (i = 0; i < rm_quota_used; i++) {
                 qrec = ocfs2_begin_quota_recovery(osb, rm_quota[i]);
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/journal.h b/fs/ocfs2/journal.h
index 6180da1e37e6..68cf2f6d3c6a 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/journal.h
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static inline void ocfs2_checkpoint_inode(struct inode *inode)
                 /* WARNING: This only kicks off a single
                  * checkpoint. If someone races you and adds more
                  * metadata to the journal, you won't know, and will
-                 * wind up waiting *alot* longer than necessary. Right
+                 * wind up waiting *a lot* longer than necessary. Right
                  * now we only use this in clear_inode so that's
                  * OK. */
                 ocfs2_start_checkpoint(osb);
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
index 28f2cc1080d8..e5d738cd9cc0 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
@@ -2128,7 +2128,7 @@ leave:
 }
 
 /**
- * ocfs2_prep_new_orphaned_file() - Prepare the orphan dir to recieve a newly
+ * ocfs2_prep_new_orphaned_file() - Prepare the orphan dir to receive a newly
  * allocated file. This is different from the typical 'add to orphan dir'
  * operation in that the inode does not yet exist. This is a problem because
  * the orphan dir stringifies the inode block number to come up with it's
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h
index bf2e7764920e..b68f87a83924 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static unsigned char ocfs2_type_by_mode[S_IFMT >> S_SHIFT] = {
 struct ocfs2_block_check {
 /*00*/  __le32 bc_crc32e;       /* 802.3 Ethernet II CRC32 */
         __le16 bc_ecc;          /* Single-error-correction parity vector.
-                                   This is a simple Hamming code dependant
+                                   This is a simple Hamming code dependent
                                    on the blocksize.  OCFS2's maximum
                                    blocksize, 4K, requires 16 parity bits,
                                    so we fit in __le16. */
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ struct ocfs2_dinode {
                                                           after an unclean
                                                           shutdown */
                 } journal1;
-        } id1;                          /* Inode type dependant 1 */
+        } id1;                          /* Inode type dependent 1 */
 /*C0*/  union {
                 struct ocfs2_super_block        i_super;
                 struct ocfs2_local_alloc        i_lab;
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/quota_global.c b/fs/ocfs2/quota_global.c
index 279aef68025b..92fcd575775a 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/quota_global.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/quota_global.c
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ int __ocfs2_sync_dquot(struct dquot *dquot, int freeing)
         spin_unlock(&dq_data_lock);
         err = ocfs2_qinfo_lock(info, freeing);
         if (err < 0) {
-                mlog(ML_ERROR, "Failed to lock quota info, loosing quota write"
+                mlog(ML_ERROR, "Failed to lock quota info, losing quota write"
                                " (type=%d, id=%u)\n", dquot->dq_type,
                                (unsigned)dquot->dq_id);
                 goto out;
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/reservations.h b/fs/ocfs2/reservations.h
index 1e49cc29d06c..42c2b804f3fd 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/reservations.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/reservations.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 struct ocfs2_alloc_reservation {
         struct rb_node  r_node;
 
-        unsigned int    r_start;        /* Begining of current window */
+        unsigned int    r_start;        /* Beginning of current window */
         unsigned int    r_len;          /* Length of the window */
 
         unsigned int    r_last_len;     /* Length of most recent alloc */
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.h b/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.h
index 8ce7398ae1d2..1ec56fdb8d0d 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.h
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ struct ocfs2_stack_operations {
          *
          * ->connect() must not return until it is guaranteed that
          *
-         *  - Node down notifications for the filesystem will be recieved
+         *  - Node down notifications for the filesystem will be received
          *    and passed to conn->cc_recovery_handler().
          *  - Locking requests for the filesystem will be processed.
          */
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c b/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c
index ab6e2061074f..ba5d97e4a73e 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c
@@ -1511,7 +1511,7 @@ static int ocfs2_cluster_group_search(struct inode *inode,
                 max_bits = le16_to_cpu(gd->bg_bits);
 
                 /* Tail groups in cluster bitmaps which aren't cpg
-                 * aligned are prone to partial extention by a failed
+                 * aligned are prone to partial extension by a failed
                  * fs resize. If the file system resize never got to
                  * update the dinode cluster count, then we don't want
                  * to trust any clusters past it, regardless of what
@@ -2459,7 +2459,7 @@ static int _ocfs2_free_suballoc_bits(handle_t *handle,
         /* The alloc_bh comes from ocfs2_free_dinode() or
          * ocfs2_free_clusters().  The callers have all locked the
          * allocator and gotten alloc_bh from the lock call.  This
-         * validates the dinode buffer.  Any corruption that has happended
+         * validates the dinode buffer.  Any corruption that has happened
          * is a code bug. */
         BUG_ON(!OCFS2_IS_VALID_DINODE(fe));
         BUG_ON((count + start_bit) > ocfs2_bits_per_group(cl));
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
index 69fa11b35aa4..5a521c748859 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *ocfs2_inode_cachep = NULL;
 struct kmem_cache *ocfs2_dquot_cachep;
 struct kmem_cache *ocfs2_qf_chunk_cachep;
 
-/* OCFS2 needs to schedule several differnt types of work which
+/* OCFS2 needs to schedule several different types of work which
  * require cluster locking, disk I/O, recovery waits, etc. Since these
  * types of work tend to be heavy we avoid using the kernel events
  * workqueue and schedule on our own. */
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
index 57a215dc2d9b..81ecf9c0bf0a 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
@@ -3554,7 +3554,7 @@ int ocfs2_xattr_set(struct inode *inode,
         down_write(&OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_xattr_sem);
         /*
          * Scan inode and external block to find the same name
-         * extended attribute and collect search infomation.
+         * extended attribute and collect search information.
          */
         ret = ocfs2_xattr_ibody_find(inode, name_index, name, &xis);
         if (ret)
@@ -3578,7 +3578,7 @@ int ocfs2_xattr_set(struct inode *inode,
                         goto cleanup;
         }
 
-        /* Check whether the value is refcounted and do some prepartion. */
+        /* Check whether the value is refcounted and do some preparation. */
         if (OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_dyn_features & OCFS2_HAS_REFCOUNT_FL &&
             (!xis.not_found || !xbs.not_found)) {
                 ret = ocfs2_prepare_refcount_xattr(inode, di, &xi,
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index ac546975031f..d545e97d99c3 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ struct hd_struct *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno,
         /* everything is up and running, commence */
         rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->part[partno], p);
 
-        /* suppress uevent if the disk supresses it */
+        /* suppress uevent if the disk suppresses it */
         if (!dev_get_uevent_suppress(ddev))
                 kobject_uevent(&pdev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ rescan:
         /*
          * If any partition code tried to read beyond EOD, try
          * unlocking native capacity even if partition table is
-         * sucessfully read as we could be missing some partitions.
+         * successfully read as we could be missing some partitions.
          */
         if (state->access_beyond_eod) {
                 printk(KERN_WARNING
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 5a670c11aeac..dd6628d3ba42 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *__check_mem_permission(struct task_struct *task)
         }
 
         /*
-         * Noone else is allowed.
+         * No one else is allowed.
          */
         mmput(mm);
         return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
diff --git a/fs/pstore/Kconfig b/fs/pstore/Kconfig
index 867d0ac026ce..8007ae7c0d8c 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/pstore/Kconfig
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 config PSTORE
-        bool "Persistant store support"
+        bool "Persistent store support"
         default n
         help
            This option enables generic access to platform level
diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c
index fcc8ae75d874..a925bf205497 100644
--- a/fs/quota/dquot.c
+++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ static inline int dqput_blocks(struct dquot *dquot)
 
 /*
  * Remove references to dquots from inode and add dquot to list for freeing
- * if we have the last referece to dquot
+ * if we have the last reference to dquot
  * We can't race with anybody because we hold dqptr_sem for writing...
  */
 static int remove_inode_dquot_ref(struct inode *inode, int type,
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
index c77514bd5776..c5e82ece7c6c 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
 ** Write ahead logging implementation copyright Chris Mason 2000
 **
-** The background commits make this code very interelated, and
+** The background commits make this code very interrelated, and
 ** overly complex.  I need to rethink things a bit....The major players:
 **
 ** journal_begin -- call with the number of blocks you expect to log.
@@ -2725,7 +2725,7 @@ int journal_init(struct super_block *sb, const char *j_dev_name,
                                                  REISERFS_DISK_OFFSET_IN_BYTES /
                                                  sb->s_blocksize + 2);
 
-        /* Sanity check to see is the standard journal fitting withing first bitmap
+        /* Sanity check to see is the standard journal fitting within first bitmap
            (actual for small blocksizes) */
         if (!SB_ONDISK_JOURNAL_DEVICE(sb) &&
             (SB_JOURNAL_1st_RESERVED_BLOCK(sb) +
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/lock.c b/fs/reiserfs/lock.c
index b87aa2c1afc1..7df1ce48203a 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/lock.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/lock.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  * for this mutex, no need for a system wide mutex facility.
  *
  * Also this lock is often released before a call that could block because
- * reiserfs performances were partialy based on the release while schedule()
+ * reiserfs performances were partially based on the release while schedule()
  * property of the Bkl.
  */
 void reiserfs_write_lock(struct super_block *s)
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
index 0aab04f46827..b216ff6be1c9 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ void add_save_link(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
         /* body of "save" link */
         link = INODE_PKEY(inode)->k_dir_id;
 
-        /* put "save" link inot tree, don't charge quota to anyone */
+        /* put "save" link into tree, don't charge quota to anyone */
         retval =
             reiserfs_insert_item(th, &path, &key, &ih, NULL, (char *)&link);
         if (retval) {
@@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@ out:
 
 /* Read data from quotafile - avoid pagecache and such because we cannot afford
  * acquiring the locks... As quota files are never truncated and quota code
- * itself serializes the operations (and noone else should touch the files)
+ * itself serializes the operations (and no one else should touch the files)
  * we don't have to be afraid of races */
 static ssize_t reiserfs_quota_read(struct super_block *sb, int type, char *data,
                                    size_t len, loff_t off)
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index 5c11ca82b782..47d2a4498b03 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ static struct page *reiserfs_get_page(struct inode *dir, size_t n)
         struct address_space *mapping = dir->i_mapping;
         struct page *page;
         /* We can deadlock if we try to free dentries,
-           and an unlink/rmdir has just occured - GFP_NOFS avoids this */
+           and an unlink/rmdir has just occurred - GFP_NOFS avoids this */
         mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_NOFS);
         page = read_mapping_page(mapping, n >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, NULL);
         if (!IS_ERR(page)) {
diff --git a/fs/squashfs/cache.c b/fs/squashfs/cache.c
index 26b15ae34d6f..c37b520132ff 100644
--- a/fs/squashfs/cache.c
+++ b/fs/squashfs/cache.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ struct squashfs_cache_entry *squashfs_cache_get(struct super_block *sb,
                         entry = &cache->entry[i];
 
                         /*
-                         * Initialise choosen cache entry, and fill it in from
+                         * Initialise chosen cache entry, and fill it in from
                          * disk.
                          */
                         cache->unused--;
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ cleanup:
 
 
 /*
- * Copy upto length bytes from cache entry to buffer starting at offset bytes
+ * Copy up to length bytes from cache entry to buffer starting at offset bytes
  * into the cache entry.  If there's not length bytes then copy the number of
  * bytes available.  In all cases return the number of bytes copied.
  */
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/budget.c b/fs/ubifs/budget.c
index c8ff0d1ae5d3..8b3a7da531eb 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/budget.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/budget.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static int make_free_space(struct ubifs_info *c)
                 if (liab2 < liab1)
                         return -EAGAIN;
 
-                dbg_budg("new liability %lld (not shrinked)", liab2);
+                dbg_budg("new liability %lld (not shrunk)", liab2);
 
                 /* Liability did not shrink again, try GC */
                 dbg_budg("Run GC");
diff --git a/fs/ufs/inode.c b/fs/ufs/inode.c
index 27a4babe7df0..e765743cf9f3 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/inode.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int ufs_block_to_path(struct inode *inode, sector_t i_block, sector_t off
 
 /*
  * Returns the location of the fragment from
- * the begining of the filesystem.
+ * the beginning of the filesystem.
  */
 
 static u64 ufs_frag_map(struct inode *inode, sector_t frag, bool needs_lock)
diff --git a/fs/ufs/super.c b/fs/ufs/super.c
index 7693d6293404..3915ade6f9a8 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/super.c
@@ -483,9 +483,9 @@ static int ufs_parse_options (char * options, unsigned * mount_options)
 }
 
 /*
- * Diffrent types of UFS hold fs_cstotal in different
- * places, and use diffrent data structure for it.
- * To make things simplier we just copy fs_cstotal to ufs_sb_private_info
+ * Different types of UFS hold fs_cstotal in different
+ * places, and use different data structure for it.
+ * To make things simpler we just copy fs_cstotal to ufs_sb_private_info
  */
 static void ufs_setup_cstotal(struct super_block *sb)
 {
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index 52dbd14260ba..79ce38be15a1 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@ xfs_get_blocks_direct(
  * If the private argument is non-NULL __xfs_get_blocks signals us that we
  * need to issue a transaction to convert the range from unwritten to written
  * extents.  In case this is regular synchronous I/O we just call xfs_end_io
- * to do this and we are done.  But in case this was a successfull AIO
+ * to do this and we are done.  But in case this was a successful AIO
  * request this handler is called from interrupt context, from which we
  * can't start transactions.  In that case offload the I/O completion to
  * the workqueues we also use for buffered I/O completion.
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
index 596bb2c9de42..5ea402023ebd 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ xfs_buf_lru_add(
  * The unlocked check is safe here because it only occurs when there are not
  * b_lru_ref counts left on the inode under the pag->pag_buf_lock. it is there
  * to optimise the shrinker removing the buffer from the LRU and calling
- * xfs_buf_free(). i.e. it removes an unneccessary round trip on the
+ * xfs_buf_free(). i.e. it removes an unnecessary round trip on the
  * bt_lru_lock.
  */
 STATIC void
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ out_free_pages:
 }
 
 /*
- *      Map buffer into kernel address-space if nessecary.
+ *      Map buffer into kernel address-space if necessary.
  */
 STATIC int
 _xfs_buf_map_pages(
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
index 52aadfbed132..f4213ba1ff85 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ xfs_aio_write_isize_update(
 
 /*
  * If this was a direct or synchronous I/O that failed (such as ENOSPC) then
- * part of the I/O may have been written to disk before the error occured.  In
+ * part of the I/O may have been written to disk before the error occurred.  In
  * this case the on-disk file size may have been adjusted beyond the in-memory
  * file size and now needs to be truncated back.
  */
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
index 9ff7fc603d2f..dd21784525a8 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ xfs_synchronize_times(
 
 /*
  * If the linux inode is valid, mark it dirty.
- * Used when commiting a dirty inode into a transaction so that
+ * Used when committing a dirty inode into a transaction so that
  * the inode will get written back by the linux code
  */
 void
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
index 594cd822d84d..9cf35a688f53 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ xfs_quiesce_fs(
 /*
  * Second stage of a quiesce. The data is already synced, now we have to take
  * care of the metadata. New transactions are already blocked, so we need to
- * wait for any remaining transactions to drain out before proceding.
+ * wait for any remaining transactions to drain out before proceeding.
  */
 void
 xfs_quiesce_attr(
diff --git a/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot.c b/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot.c
index 7e2416478503..6fa214603819 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot.c
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ xfs_qm_dqread(
 
         /*
          * Reservation counters are defined as reservation plus current usage
-         * to avoid having to add everytime.
+         * to avoid having to add every time.
          */
         dqp->q_res_bcount = be64_to_cpu(ddqp->d_bcount);
         dqp->q_res_icount = be64_to_cpu(ddqp->d_icount);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_bhv.c b/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_bhv.c
index 774d7ec6df8e..a0a829addca9 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_bhv.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_bhv.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ xfs_qm_newmount(
                  */
                 if (quotaondisk && !XFS_QM_NEED_QUOTACHECK(mp)) {
                         /*
-                         * If an error occured, qm_mount_quotas code
+                         * If an error occurred, qm_mount_quotas code
                          * has already disabled quotas. So, just finish
                          * mounting, and get on with the boring life
                          * without disk quotas.
diff --git a/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c b/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c
index c82f06778a27..0d62a07b7fd8 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ xfs_qm_scall_quotaoff(
         /*
          * Next we make the changes in the quota flag in the mount struct.
          * This isn't protected by a particular lock directly, because we
-         * don't want to take a mrlock everytime we depend on quotas being on.
+         * don't want to take a mrlock every time we depend on quotas being on.
          */
         mp->m_qflags &= ~(flags);
 
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ xfs_qm_scall_quotaon(
                 return XFS_ERROR(EINVAL);
         }
         /*
-         * If everything's upto-date incore, then don't waste time.
+         * If everything's up to-date incore, then don't waste time.
          */
         if ((mp->m_qflags & flags) == flags)
                 return XFS_ERROR(EEXIST);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
index e5413d96f1af..7b7e005e3dcc 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks(
         lasttarg = XFS_BUF_TARGET(bp);
 
         /*
-         * If the write was asynchronous then noone will be looking for the
+         * If the write was asynchronous then no one will be looking for the
          * error.  Clear the error state and write the buffer out again.
          *
          * During sync or umount we'll write all pending buffers again
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index 742c8330994a..a37480a6e023 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -2789,7 +2789,7 @@ xfs_iflush(
 
         /*
          * We can't flush the inode until it is unpinned, so wait for it if we
-         * are allowed to block.  We know noone new can pin it, because we are
+         * are allowed to block.  We know no one new can pin it, because we are
          * holding the inode lock shared and you need to hold it exclusively to
          * pin the inode.
          *
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
index f753200cef8d..ff4e2a30227d 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ struct xfs_imap {
  * Generally, we do not want to hold the i_rlock while holding the
  * i_ilock. Hierarchy is i_iolock followed by i_rlock.
  *
- * xfs_iptr_t contains all the inode fields upto and including the
+ * xfs_iptr_t contains all the inode fields up to and including the
  * i_mnext and i_mprev fields, it is used as a marker in the inode
  * chain off the mount structure by xfs_sync calls.
  */
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ xfs_iflags_test_and_clear(xfs_inode_t *ip, unsigned short flags)
 
 /*
  * Project quota id helpers (previously projid was 16bit only
- * and using two 16bit values to hold new 32bit projid was choosen
+ * and using two 16bit values to hold new 32bit projid was chosen
  * to retain compatibility with "old" filesystems).
  */
 static inline prid_t
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h
index 15dbf1f9c2be..ffae692c9832 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ int	xlog_write(struct log *log, struct xfs_log_vec *log_vector,
  * When we crack an atomic LSN, we sample it first so that the value will not
  * change while we are cracking it into the component values. This means we
  * will always get consistent component values to work from. This should always
- * be used to smaple and crack LSNs taht are stored and updated in atomic
+ * be used to sample and crack LSNs that are stored and updated in atomic
  * variables.
  */
 static inline void
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
index 0c4a5618e7af..5cc464a17c93 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ xlog_get_bp(
         /*
          * We do log I/O in units of log sectors (a power-of-2
          * multiple of the basic block size), so we round up the
-         * requested size to acommodate the basic blocks required
+         * requested size to accommodate the basic blocks required
          * for complete log sectors.
          *
          * In addition, the buffer may be used for a non-sector-
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ xlog_get_bp(
          * an issue.  Nor will this be a problem if the log I/O is
          * done in basic blocks (sector size 1).  But otherwise we
          * extend the buffer by one extra log sector to ensure
-         * there's space to accomodate this possiblility.
+         * there's space to accommodate this possibility.
          */
         if (nbblks > 1 && log->l_sectBBsize > 1)
                 nbblks += log->l_sectBBsize;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_inode.c
index 16084d8ea231..048b0c689d3e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_inode.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ xfs_trans_ijoin(
  *
  *
  * Grabs a reference to the inode which will be dropped when the transaction
- * is commited.  The inode will also be unlocked at that point.  The inode
+ * is committed.  The inode will also be unlocked at that point.  The inode
  * must be locked, and it cannot be associated with any transaction.
  */
 void
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
index c48b4217ec47..b7a5fe7c52c8 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ xfs_release(
                  * If we previously truncated this file and removed old data
                  * in the process, we want to initiate "early" writeout on
                  * the last close.  This is an attempt to combat the notorious
-                 * NULL files problem which is particularly noticable from a
+                 * NULL files problem which is particularly noticeable from a
                  * truncate down, buffered (re-)write (delalloc), followed by
                  * a crash.  What we are effectively doing here is
                  * significantly reducing the time window where we'd otherwise
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ xfs_release(
                  *
                  * Further, check if the inode is being opened, written and
                  * closed frequently and we have delayed allocation blocks
-                 * oustanding (e.g. streaming writes from the NFS server),
+                 * outstanding (e.g. streaming writes from the NFS server),
                  * truncating the blocks past EOF will cause fragmentation to
                  * occur.
                  *