The patch titled
Subject: gfp: gfp_types.h: fix typos & punctuation
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
gfp-gfp_typesh-fix-typos-punctuation.patch
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: gfp: gfp_types.h: fix typos & punctuation
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:33:16 -0800
Correct typos/spellos and punctutation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231213043316.10128-1-rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/gfp_types.h | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/gfp_types.h~gfp-gfp_typesh-fix-typos-punctuation
+++ a/include/linux/gfp_types.h
@@ -162,25 +162,25 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise gfp_t;
* %__GFP_RECLAIM is shorthand to allow/forbid both direct and kswapd reclaim.
*
* The default allocator behavior depends on the request size. We have a concept
- * of so called costly allocations (with order > %PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER).
+ * of so-called costly allocations (with order > %PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER).
* !costly allocations are too essential to fail so they are implicitly
* non-failing by default (with some exceptions like OOM victims might fail so
* the caller still has to check for failures) while costly requests try to be
* not disruptive and back off even without invoking the OOM killer.
* The following three modifiers might be used to override some of these
- * implicit rules
+ * implicit rules.
*
* %__GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation will try only very lightweight
* memory direct reclaim to get some memory under memory pressure (thus
* it can sleep). It will avoid disruptive actions like OOM killer. The
* caller must handle the failure which is quite likely to happen under
* heavy memory pressure. The flag is suitable when failure can easily be
- * handled at small cost, such as reduced throughput
+ * handled at small cost, such as reduced throughput.
*
* %__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL: The VM implementation will retry memory reclaim
* procedures that have previously failed if there is some indication
- * that progress has been made else where. It can wait for other
- * tasks to attempt high level approaches to freeing memory such as
+ * that progress has been made elsewhere. It can wait for other
+ * tasks to attempt high-level approaches to freeing memory such as
* compaction (which removes fragmentation) and page-out.
* There is still a definite limit to the number of retries, but it is
* a larger limit than with %__GFP_NORETRY.
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise gfp_t;
* is being zeroed (either via __GFP_ZERO or via init_on_alloc, provided that
* __GFP_SKIP_ZERO is not set). This flag is intended for optimization: setting
* memory tags at the same time as zeroing memory has minimal additional
- * performace impact.
+ * performance impact.
*
* %__GFP_SKIP_KASAN makes KASAN skip unpoisoning on page allocation.
* Used for userspace and vmalloc pages; the latter are unpoisoned by
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
maple_tree-fix-typos-spellos-etc.patch
gfp-gfp_typesh-fix-typos-punctuation.patch
rapidio-tsi721-fix-kernel-doc-warnings.patch
freevxfs-bmap-fix-kernel-doc-warnings.patch
freevxfs-immed-fix-kernel-doc-param-name.patch
freevxfs-lookup-fix-function-params-kernel-doc.patch
init-kconfig-move-more-items-into-the-expert-menu.patch
usr-kconfig-fix-typos-of-its.patch
