[PATCH v3] Documentation: English fixes in kgdb/kdb article

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Minor grammar and typos fixed in the kgdb/kdb article

Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman <nir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst | 16 +++++++---------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
index f83ba2601e55..9e0e3f3235ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst
@@ -75,11 +75,11 @@ supports it for the architecture you are using, you can use hardware
 breakpoints if you desire to run with the ``CONFIG_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX``
 option turned on, else you need to turn off this option.
 
-Next you should choose one of more I/O drivers to interconnect debugging
+Next you should choose one or more I/O drivers to interconnect the debugging
 host and debugged target. Early boot debugging requires a KGDB I/O
 driver that supports early debugging and the driver must be built into
 the kernel directly. Kgdb I/O driver configuration takes place via
-kernel or module parameters which you can learn more about in the in the
+kernel or module parameters which you can learn more about in the
 section that describes the parameter kgdboc.
 
 Here is an example set of ``.config`` symbols to enable or disable for kgdb::
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Using loadable module or built-in
 Configure kgdboc at runtime with sysfs
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-At run time you can enable or disable kgdboc by echoing a parameters
-into the sysfs. Here are two examples:
+At run time you can enable or disable kgdboc by writing parameters
+into sysfs. Here are two examples:
 
 1. Enable kgdboc on ttyS0::
@@ -374,10 +374,10 @@ default behavior is always set to 0.
 Kernel parameter: ``nokaslr``
 -----------------------------
 
-If the architecture that you are using enable KASLR by default,
+If the architecture that you are using enables KASLR by default,
 you should consider turning it off.  KASLR randomizes the
-virtual address where the kernel image is mapped and confuse
-gdb which resolve kernel symbol address from symbol table
+virtual address where the kernel image is mapped and confuses
+gdb which resolves addresses of kernel symbols from the symbol table
 of vmlinux.
 
 Using kdb
@@ -631,8 +631,6 @@ automatically changes into kgdb mode.
 
 	kgdb
 
-   Now disconnect your terminal program and connect gdb in its place
-
 2. At the kdb prompt, disconnect the terminal program and connect gdb in
    its place.
 
@@ -749,7 +747,7 @@ The kernel debugger is organized into a number of components:
    helper functions in some of the other kernel components to make it
    possible for kdb to examine and report information about the kernel
    without taking locks that could cause a kernel deadlock. The kdb core
-   contains implements the following functionality.
+   implements the following functionality.
 
    -  A simple shell
 
-- 
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