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Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory

Fix thirty five typos in dm-integrity.rst, dm-raid.rst, dm-zoned.rst,
verity.rst, writecache.rst, tsx_async_abort.rst, md.rst, bttv.rst,
dvb_references.rst, frontend-cardlist.rst, gspca-cardlist.rst, ipu3.rst,
remote-controller.rst, mm/index.rst, numaperf.rst, userfaultfd.rst,
module-signing.rst, imx-ddr.rst, intel-speed-select.rst,
intel_pstate.rst, ramoops.rst, abi.rst, kernel.rst, vm.rst

Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204072848.GA49895@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst
··· 117 117 118 118 commit_time:number 119 119 Commit time in milliseconds. When this time passes, the journal is 120 - written. The journal is also written immediatelly if the FLUSH 120 + written. The journal is also written immediately if the FLUSH 121 121 request is received. 122 122 123 123 internal_hash:algorithm(:key) (the key is optional) ··· 147 147 "salsa20" or "ctr(aes)"). 148 148 149 149 The journal contains history of last writes to the block device, 150 - an attacker reading the journal could see the last sector nubmers 150 + an attacker reading the journal could see the last sector numbers 151 151 that were written. From the sector numbers, the attacker can infer 152 152 the size of files that were written. To protect against this 153 153 situation, you can encrypt the journal.
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Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst
··· 418 418 specific devices are requested via rebuild. Fix RAID leg 419 419 rebuild errors. 420 420 1.15.0 Fix size extensions not being synchronized in case of new MD bitmap 421 - pages allocated; also fix those not occuring after previous reductions 421 + pages allocated; also fix those not occurring after previous reductions 422 422 1.15.1 Fix argument count and arguments for rebuild/write_mostly/journal_(dev|mode) 423 423 on the status line.
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Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.rst
··· 24 24 and memory usage as well as storage capacity loss). For a 10TB 25 25 host-managed disk with 256 MB zones, dm-zoned memory usage per disk 26 26 instance is at most 4.5 MB and as little as 5 zones will be used 27 - internally for storing metadata and performaing reclaim operations. 27 + internally for storing metadata and performing reclaim operations. 28 28 29 29 dm-zoned target devices are formatted and checked using the dmzadm 30 30 utility available at: ··· 102 102 accessed blocks are invalid, the read buffer is zeroed and the read 103 103 operation terminated. 104 104 105 - After some time, the limited number of convnetional zones available may 105 + After some time, the limited number of conventional zones available may 106 106 be exhausted (all used to map chunks or buffer sequential zones) and 107 107 unaligned writes to unbuffered chunks become impossible. To avoid this 108 108 situation, a reclaim process regularly scans used conventional zones and ··· 158 158 dmzadm --format /dev/sdxx /dev/sdyy 159 159 160 160 161 - Fomatted device(s) can be started with the dmzadm utility, too.: 161 + Formatted device(s) can be started with the dmzadm utility, too.: 162 162 163 163 Ex:: 164 164
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Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.rst
··· 69 69 70 70 <#opt_params> 71 71 Number of optional parameters. If there are no optional parameters, 72 - the optional paramaters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero. 72 + the optional parameters section can be skipped or #opt_params can be zero. 73 73 Otherwise #opt_params is the number of following arguments. 74 74 75 75 Example of optional parameters section:
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Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/writecache.rst
··· 37 37 autocommit_blocks n (default: 64 for pmem, 65536 for ssd) 38 38 when the application writes this amount of blocks without 39 39 issuing the FLUSH request, the blocks are automatically 40 - commited 40 + committed 41 41 autocommit_time ms (default: 1000) 42 42 autocommit time in milliseconds. The data is automatically 43 - commited if this time passes and no FLUSH request is 43 + committed if this time passes and no FLUSH request is 44 44 received 45 45 fua (by default on) 46 46 applicable only to persistent memory - use the FUA flag
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Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.rst
··· 60 60 61 61 The victim of a malicious actor does not need to make use of TSX. Only the 62 62 attacker needs to begin a TSX transaction and raise an asynchronous abort 63 - which in turn potenitally leaks data stored in the buffers. 63 + which in turn potentially leaks data stored in the buffers. 64 64 65 65 More detailed technical information is available in the TAA specific x86 66 66 architecture section: :ref:`Documentation/x86/tsx_async_abort.rst <tsx_async_abort>`.
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Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst
··· 221 221 222 222 layout 223 223 The ``layout`` for the array for the particular level. This is 224 - simply a number that is interpretted differently by different 224 + simply a number that is interpreted differently by different 225 225 levels. It can be written while assembling an array. 226 226 227 227 array_size
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Documentation/admin-guide/media/bttv.rst
··· 77 77 only bt878-based cards can have a subsystem ID (which does not mean 78 78 that every card really has one). bt848 cards can't have a Subsystem 79 79 ID and therefore can't be autodetected. There is a list with the ID's 80 - at :doc:`bttv-cardlist` (in case you are intrested or want to mail 80 + at :doc:`bttv-cardlist` (in case you are interested or want to mail 81 81 patches with updates). 82 82 83 83
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Documentation/admin-guide/media/dvb_references.rst
··· 10 10 http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-media for details. 11 11 12 12 There are also some other old lists hosted at: 13 - https://linuxtv.org/lists.php. If you're insterested on that for historic 13 + https://linuxtv.org/lists.php. If you're interested on that for historic 14 14 reasons, please check the archive at https://linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/. 15 15 16 16 The media subsystem Wiki is hosted at https://linuxtv.org/wiki/.
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Documentation/admin-guide/media/frontend-cardlist.rst
··· 68 68 cx24117 Conexant CX24117 based 69 69 cx24120 Conexant CX24120 based 70 70 cx24123 Conexant CX24123 based 71 - ds3000 Montage Tehnology DS3000 based 71 + ds3000 Montage Technology DS3000 based 72 72 mb86a16 Fujitsu MB86A16 based 73 73 mt312 Zarlink VP310/MT312/ZL10313 based 74 74 s5h1420 Samsung S5H1420 based ··· 83 83 tda8083 Philips TDA8083 based 84 84 tda8261 Philips TDA8261 based 85 85 tda826x Philips TDA826X silicon tuner 86 - ts2020 Montage Tehnology TS2020 based tuners 86 + ts2020 Montage Technology TS2020 based tuners 87 87 tua6100 Infineon TUA6100 PLL 88 88 cx24113 Conexant CX24113/CX24128 tuner for DVB-S/DSS 89 89 itd1000 Integrant ITD1000 Zero IF tuner for DVB-S/DSS
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Documentation/admin-guide/media/gspca-cardlist.rst
··· 305 305 pac7302 093a:2626 Labtec 2200 306 306 pac7302 093a:2627 Genius FaceCam 300 307 307 pac7302 093a:2628 Genius iLook 300 308 - pac7302 093a:2629 Genious iSlim 300 308 + pac7302 093a:2629 Genius iSlim 300 309 309 pac7302 093a:262a Webcam 300k 310 310 pac7302 093a:262c Philips SPC 230 NC 311 311 jl2005bcd 0979:0227 Various brands, 19 known cameras supported
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Documentation/admin-guide/media/ipu3.rst
··· 86 86 Let us take the example of ov5670 sensor connected to CSI2 port 0, for a 87 87 2592x1944 image capture. 88 88 89 - Using the media contorller APIs, the ov5670 sensor is configured to send 89 + Using the media controller APIs, the ov5670 sensor is configured to send 90 90 frames in packed raw Bayer format to IPU3 CSI2 receiver. 91 91 92 92 .. code-block:: none ··· 313 313 314 314 **Geometric Distortion Correction** 315 315 316 - Geometric Distortion Correction is used to performe correction of distortions 317 - and image filtering. It needs some extra filter and envelop padding pixels to 316 + Geometric Distortion Correction is used to perform correction of distortions 317 + and image filtering. It needs some extra filter and envelope padding pixels to 318 318 work, so the input resolution of GDC should be larger than the output 319 319 resolution. 320 320
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Documentation/admin-guide/media/remote-controller.rst
··· 68 68 69 69 Xorg recognizes several IR keycodes that have its numerical value lower 70 70 than 247. With the advent of Wayland, the input driver got updated too, 71 - and should now accept all keycodes. Yet, you may want to just reasign 71 + and should now accept all keycodes. Yet, you may want to just reassign 72 72 the keycodes to something that your favorite media application likes. 73 73 74 74 This can be done by setting
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Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst
··· 3 3 ================= 4 4 5 5 Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies, 6 - for managing the memory in the system. This includes implemnetation of 6 + for managing the memory in the system. This includes implementation of 7 7 virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel 8 - internal structures and user space programms, mapping of files into 8 + internal structures and user space programs, mapping of files into 9 9 processes address space and many other cool things. 10 10 11 11 Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable
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Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst
··· 74 74 /sys/devices/system/node/nodeY/access0/initiators/ 75 75 76 76 These attributes apply only when accessed from nodes that have the 77 - are linked under the this access's inititiators. 77 + are linked under the this access's initiators. 78 78 79 79 The performance characteristics the kernel provides for the local initiators 80 80 are exported are as follows::
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Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
··· 114 114 you must provide some kind of page in your thread after reading from 115 115 the uffd. You must provide either ``UFFDIO_COPY`` or ``UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE``. 116 116 The normal behavior of the OS automatically providing a zero page on 117 - an annonymous mmaping is not in place. 117 + an anonymous mmaping is not in place. 118 118 119 119 - None of the page-delivering ioctls default to the range that you 120 120 registered with. You must fill in all fields for the appropriate
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Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst
··· 106 106 certificate and a private key. 107 107 108 108 If the PEM file containing the private key is encrypted, or if the 109 - PKCS#11 token requries a PIN, this can be provided at build time by 109 + PKCS#11 token requires a PIN, this can be provided at build time by 110 110 means of the ``KBUILD_SIGN_PIN`` variable. 111 111 112 112
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Documentation/admin-guide/perf/imx-ddr.rst
··· 4 4 5 5 There are no performance counters inside the DRAM controller, so performance 6 6 signals are brought out to the edge of the controller where a set of 4 x 32 bit 7 - counters is implemented. This is controlled by the CSV modes programed in counter 7 + counters is implemented. This is controlled by the CSV modes programmed in counter 8 8 control register which causes a large number of PERF signals to be generated. 9 9 10 10 Selection of the value for each counter is done via the config registers. There
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Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel-speed-select.rst
··· 57 57 58 58 Summary of platform capability 59 59 ------------------------------ 60 - To check the current platform and driver capaibilities, execute:: 60 + To check the current platform and driver capabilities, execute:: 61 61 62 62 #intel-speed-select --info 63 63 ··· 658 658 Intel(R) SST-BF: 659 659 660 660 - Discover Intel(R) SST-BF and note low and high priority base frequency 661 - - Note the high prioity CPU list 661 + - Note the high priority CPU list 662 662 - Enable CLOS using core-power feature set 663 663 - Configure CLOS parameters. Use CLOS.min to set to minimum performance 664 664 - Subscribe desired CPUs to CLOS groups
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Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst
··· 56 56 57 57 ``intel_pstate`` can operate in two different modes, active or passive. In the 58 58 active mode, it uses its own internal performance scaling governor algorithm or 59 - allows the hardware to do preformance scaling by itself, while in the passive 59 + allows the hardware to do performance scaling by itself, while in the passive 60 60 mode it responds to requests made by a generic ``CPUFreq`` governor implementing 61 61 a certain performance scaling algorithm. Which of them will be in effect 62 62 depends on what kernel command line options are used and on the capabilities of ··· 380 380 381 381 ``no_turbo`` 382 382 If set (equal to 1), the driver is not allowed to set any turbo P-states 383 - (see `Turbo P-states Support`_). If unset (equalt to 0, which is the 383 + (see `Turbo P-states Support`_). If unset (equal to 0, which is the 384 384 default), turbo P-states can be set by the driver. 385 385 [Note that ``intel_pstate`` does not support the general ``boost`` 386 386 attribute (supported by some other scaling drivers) which is replaced 387 387 by this one.] 388 388 389 - This attrubute does not affect the maximum supported frequency value 389 + This attribute does not affect the maximum supported frequency value 390 390 supplied to the ``CPUFreq`` core and exposed via the policy interface, 391 391 but it affects the maximum possible value of per-policy P-state limits 392 392 (see `Interpretation of Policy Attributes`_ below for details).
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Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst
··· 22 22 * ``mem_address`` for the start 23 23 * ``mem_size`` for the size. The memory size will be rounded down to a 24 24 power of two. 25 - * ``mem_type`` to specifiy if the memory type (default is pgprot_writecombine). 25 + * ``mem_type`` to specify if the memory type (default is pgprot_writecombine). 26 26 27 27 Typically the default value of ``mem_type=0`` should be used as that sets the pstore 28 28 mapping to pgprot_writecombine. Setting ``mem_type=1`` attempts to use
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Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst
··· 28 28 29 29 Determines whether the kernels maps a vDSO page into 32-bit processes; 30 30 can be set to 1 to enable, or 0 to disable. Defaults to enabled if 31 - ``CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO`` is set, disabled otherwide. 31 + ``CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO`` is set, disabled otherwise. 32 32 33 33 This controls the same setting as the ``vdso32`` kernel boot 34 34 parameter.
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Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
··· 879 879 perf_event_mlock_kb 880 880 =================== 881 881 882 - Control size of per-cpu ring buffer not counted agains mlock limit. 882 + Control size of per-cpu ring buffer not counted against mlock limit. 883 883 884 884 The default value is 512 + 1 page 885 885
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Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
··· 146 146 acceptable trade for large contiguous free memory. Set to 0 to prevent 147 147 compaction from moving pages that are unevictable. Default value is 1. 148 148 On CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT the default value is 0 in order to avoid a page fault, due 149 - to compaction, which would block the task from becomming active until the fault 149 + to compaction, which would block the task from becoming active until the fault 150 150 is resolved. 151 151 152 152