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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-04 08:50:34 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-04 08:50:34 -0700
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial into next
Pull trivial tree changes from Jiri Kosina: "Usual pile of patches from trivial tree that make the world go round" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits) staging: go7007: remove reference to CONFIG_KMOD aic7xxx: Remove obsolete preprocessor define of: dma: doc fixes doc: fix incorrect formula to calculate CommitLimit value doc: Note need of bc in the kernel build from 3.10 onwards mm: Fix printk typo in dmapool.c modpost: Fix comment typo "Modules.symvers" Kconfig.debug: Grammar s/addition/additional/ wimax: Spelling s/than/that/, wording s/destinatary/recipient/ aic7xxx: Spelling s/termnation/termination/ arm64: mm: Remove superfluous "the" in comment of: Spelling s/anonymouns/anonymous/ dma: imx-sdma: Spelling s/determnine/determine/ ath10k: Improve grammar in comments ath6kl: Spelling s/determnine/determine/ of: Improve grammar for of_alias_get_id() documentation drm/exynos: Spelling s/contro/control/ radio-bcm2048.c: fix wrong overflow check doc: printk-formats: do not mention casts for u64/s64 doc: spelling error changes ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
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@@ -360,13 +360,13 @@ on any tail page, would mean having to split all hugepages upfront in
get_user_pages which is unacceptable as too many gup users are
performance critical and they must work natively on hugepages like
they work natively on hugetlbfs already (hugetlbfs is simpler because
-hugetlbfs pages cannot be splitted so there wouldn't be requirement of
+hugetlbfs pages cannot be split so there wouldn't be requirement of
accounting the pins on the tail pages for hugetlbfs). If we wouldn't
account the gup refcounts on the tail pages during gup, we won't know
anymore which tail page is pinned by gup and which is not while we run
split_huge_page. But we still have to add the gup pin to the head page
too, to know when we can free the compound page in case it's never
-splitted during its lifetime. That requires changing not just
+split during its lifetime. That requires changing not just
get_page, but put_page as well so that when put_page runs on a tail
page (and only on a tail page) it will find its respective head page,
and then it will decrease the head page refcount in addition to the