15 files changed, 30 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
index 51986bf08a4d..4c95935cbcf4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ ioctlfd field set to the descriptor obtained from the open call.
 AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
 ----------------------------
 
-Set the expire timeout for mounts withing an autofs mount point.
+Set the expire timeout for mounts within an autofs mount point.
 
 The call requires an initialized struct autofs_dev_ioctl with the
 ioctlfd field set to the descriptor obtained from the open call.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
index 1902c57b72ef..a167ab876c35 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ restraints as possible on how an index is structured and where it is placed in
 the tree.  The netfs can even mix indices and data files at the same level, but
 it's not recommended.
 
-Each index entry consists of a key of indeterminate length plus some auxilliary
+Each index entry consists of a key of indeterminate length plus some auxiliary
 data, also of indeterminate length.
 
 There are some limits on indices:
@@ -203,23 +203,23 @@ This has the following fields:
 
      If the function is absent, a file size of 0 is assumed.
 
- (6) A function to retrieve auxilliary data from the netfs [optional].
+ (6) A function to retrieve auxiliary data from the netfs [optional].
 
      This function will be called with the netfs data that was passed to the
-     cookie acquisition function and the maximum length of auxilliary data that
-     it may provide.  It should write the auxilliary data into the given buffer
+     cookie acquisition function and the maximum length of auxiliary data that
+     it may provide.  It should write the auxiliary data into the given buffer
      and return the quantity it wrote.
 
-     If this function is absent, the auxilliary data length will be set to 0.
+     If this function is absent, the auxiliary data length will be set to 0.
 
-     The length of the auxilliary data buffer may be dependent on the key
+     The length of the auxiliary data buffer may be dependent on the key
      length.  A netfs mustn't rely on being able to provide more than 400 bytes
      for both.
 
- (7) A function to check the auxilliary data [optional].
+ (7) A function to check the auxiliary data [optional].
 
      This function will be called to check that a match found in the cache for
-     this object is valid.  For instance with AFS it could check the auxilliary
+     this object is valid.  For instance with AFS it could check the auxiliary
      data against the data version number returned by the server to determine
      whether the index entry in a cache is still valid.
 
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ This has the following fields:
 	(*) FSCACHE_CHECKAUX_NEEDS_UPDATE	- the entry requires update
 	(*) FSCACHE_CHECKAUX_OBSOLETE		- the entry should be deleted
 
-     This function can also be used to extract data from the auxilliary data in
+     This function can also be used to extract data from the auxiliary data in
      the cache and copy it into the netfs's structures.
 
  (8) A pair of functions to manage contexts for the completion callback
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt
index fabcb0e00f25..dd57bb6bb390 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ As a consequence of this, default_groups cannot be removed directly via
 rmdir(2).  They also are not considered when rmdir(2) on the parent
 group is checking for children.
 
-[Dependant Subsystems]
+[Dependent Subsystems]
 
 Sometimes other drivers depend on particular configfs items.  For
 example, ocfs2 mounts depend on a heartbeat region item.  If that
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 6b050464a90d..c79ec58fd7f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Note: More extensive information for getting started with ext4 can be
 * Inode allocation using large virtual block groups via flex_bg
 * delayed allocation
 * large block (up to pagesize) support
-* efficent new ordered mode in JBD2 and ext4(avoid using buffer head to force
+* efficient new ordered mode in JBD2 and ext4(avoid using buffer head to force
   the ordering)
 
 [1] Filesystems with a block size of 1k may see a limit imposed by the
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ directory hash tree having a maximum depth of two.
 2.2 Candidate features for future inclusion
 
 * Online defrag (patches available but not well tested)
-* reduced mke2fs time via lazy itable initialization in conjuction with
+* reduced mke2fs time via lazy itable initialization in conjunction with
   the uninit_bg feature (capability to do this is available in e2fsprogs
   but a kernel thread to do lazy zeroing of unused inode table blocks
   after filesystem is first mounted is required for safety)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt
index fd966dc9979a..d81889669293 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-uevents.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ be fixed.
 
 The REMOVE uevent is generated at the end of an unsuccessful mount
 or at the end of a umount of the filesystem. All REMOVE uevents will
-have been preceeded by at least an ADD uevent for the same fileystem,
+have been preceded by at least an ADD uevent for the same fileystem,
 and unlike the other uevents is generated automatically by the kernel's
 kobject subsystem.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
index 0b59c0200912..4cda926628aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ their I/O so file system consistency is maintained.  One of the nifty
 features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system
 on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster.
 
-GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently
+GFS uses interchangeable inter-node locking mechanisms, the currently
 supported mechanisms are:
 
   lock_nolock -- allows gfs to be used as a local file system
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
index 933bc66ccff1..791af8dac065 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Note the "Should sync?" parameter "nosync" means that the two mirrors are
 already in sync which will be the case on a clean shutdown of Windows.  If the
 mirrors are not clean, you can specify the "sync" option instead of "nosync"
 and the Device-Mapper driver will then copy the entirety of the "Source Device"
-to the "Target Device" or if you specified multipled target devices to all of
+to the "Target Device" or if you specified multiple target devices to all of
 them.
 
 Once you have your table, save it in a file somewhere (e.g. /etc/ntfsvolume1),
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
index 5393e6611691..9ed920a8cd79 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ user_xattr	(*)	Enables Extended User Attributes.
 nouser_xattr		Disables Extended User Attributes.
 acl			Enables POSIX Access Control Lists support.
 noacl		(*)	Disables POSIX Access Control Lists support.
-resv_level=2	(*)	Set how agressive allocation reservations will be.
+resv_level=2	(*)	Set how aggressive allocation reservations will be.
 			Valid values are between 0 (reservations off) to 8
 			(maximum space for reservations).
 dir_resv_level=	(*)	By default, directory reservations will scale with file
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt
index eb59c8b44be9..3571667c7105 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Path walking overview
 A name string specifies a start (root directory, cwd, fd-relative) and a
 sequence of elements (directory entry names), which together refer to a path in
 the namespace. A path is represented as a (dentry, vfsmount) tuple. The name
-elements are sub-strings, seperated by '/'.
+elements are sub-strings, separated by '/'.
 
 Name lookups will want to find a particular path that a name string refers to
 (usually the final element, or parent of final element). This is done by taking
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ vfstest 24185492        4945    708725(2.9%) 1076136(4.4%)     0        2651
 
 What this shows is that failed rcu-walk lookups, ie. ones that are restarted
 entirely with ref-walk, are quite rare. Even the "vfstest" case which
-specifically has concurrent renames/mkdir/rmdir/ creat/unlink/etc to excercise
+specifically has concurrent renames/mkdir/rmdir/ creat/unlink/etc to exercise
 such races is not showing a huge amount of restarts.
 
 Dropping from rcu-walk to ref-walk mean that we have encountered a dentry where
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt
index 40ea6c295afb..65e03dd44823 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/pohmelfs/network_protocol.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Commands can be embedded into transaction command (which in turn has own command
 so one can extend protocol as needed without breaking backward compatibility as long
 as old commands are supported. All string lengths include tail 0 byte.
 
-All commans are transfered over the network in big-endian. CPU endianess is used at the end peers.
+All commands are transferred over the network in big-endian. CPU endianess is used at the end peers.
 
 @cmd - command number, which specifies command to be processed. Following
 	commands are used currently:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 23cae6548d3a..60740e8ecb37 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ just those considered 'most important'.  The new vectors are:
   their statistics are used by kernel developers and interested users to
   determine the occurrence of interrupts of the given type.
 
-The above IRQ vectors are displayed only when relevent.  For example,
+The above IRQ vectors are displayed only when relevant.  For example,
 the threshold vector does not exist on x86_64 platforms.  Others are
 suppressed when the system is a uniprocessor.  As of this writing, only
 i386 and x86_64 platforms support the new IRQ vector displays.
@@ -836,7 +836,6 @@ Provides counts of softirq handlers serviced since boot time, for each cpu.
  TASKLET:          0          0          0        290
    SCHED:      27035      26983      26971      26746
  HRTIMER:          0          0          0          0
-     RCU:       1678       1769       2178       2250
 
 
 1.3 IDE devices in /proc/ide
@@ -1202,7 +1201,7 @@ The columns are:
                        W = can do write operations
                        U = can do unblank
   flags                E = it is enabled
-                       C = it is prefered console
+                       C = it is preferred console
                        B = it is primary boot console
                        p = it is used for printk buffer
                        b = it is not a TTY but a Braille device
@@ -1331,7 +1330,7 @@ NOTICE: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is deprecated and will be removed, please see
 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.
 
 Caveat: when a parent task is selected, the oom killer will sacrifice any first
-generation children with seperate address spaces instead, if possible.  This
+generation children with separate address spaces instead, if possible.  This
 avoids servers and important system daemons from being killed and loses the
 minimal amount of work.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
index 2d78f1911844..d4d41465a0b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ or if it is stored out of line (in which case the value field stores a
 reference to where the actual value is stored).  This allows large values
 to be stored out of line improving scanning and lookup performance and it
 also allows values to be de-duplicated, the value being stored once, and
-all other occurences holding an out of line reference to that value.
+all other occurrences holding an out of line reference to that value.
 
 The xattr lists are packed into compressed 8K metadata blocks.
 To reduce overhead in inodes, rather than storing the on-disk
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index f806e50aaa63..597f728e7b4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ values of the same type.
 
 Mixing types, expressing multiple lines of data, and doing fancy
 formatting of data is heavily frowned upon. Doing these things may get
-you publically humiliated and your code rewritten without notice. 
+you publicly humiliated and your code rewritten without notice. 
 
 
 An attribute definition is simply:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 80815ed654cb..21a7dc467bba 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ functions:
 The passed struct file_system_type describes your filesystem. When a
 request is made to mount a filesystem onto a directory in your namespace,
 the VFS will call the appropriate mount() method for the specific
-filesystem.  New vfsmount refering to the tree returned by ->mount()
+filesystem.  New vfsmount referring to the tree returned by ->mount()
 will be attached to the mountpoint, so that when pathname resolution
 reaches the mountpoint it will jump into the root of that vfsmount.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
index 5282e3e51413..2ce36439c09f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-delayed-logging-design.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ the aggregation of all the previous changes currently held only in the log.
 This relogging technique also allows objects to be moved forward in the log so
 that an object being relogged does not prevent the tail of the log from ever
 moving forward.  This can be seen in the table above by the changing
-(increasing) LSN of each subsquent transaction - the LSN is effectively a
+(increasing) LSN of each subsequent transaction - the LSN is effectively a
 direct encoding of the location in the log of the transaction.
 
 This relogging is also used to implement long-running, multiple-commit
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ the same time another transaction modifies the item and inserts the log item
 into the new CIL, then checkpoint transaction commit code cannot use log items
 to store the list of log vectors that need to be written into the transaction.
 Hence log vectors need to be able to be chained together to allow them to be
-detatched from the log items. That is, when the CIL is flushed the memory
+detached from the log items. That is, when the CIL is flushed the memory
 buffer and log vector attached to each log item needs to be attached to the
 checkpoint context so that the log item can be released. In diagrammatic form,
 the CIL would look like this before the flush:
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ only becomes unpinned when all the transactions complete and there are no
 pending transactions. Thus the pinning and unpinning of a log item is symmetric
 as there is a 1:1 relationship with transaction commit and log item completion.
 
-For delayed logging, however, we have an assymetric transaction commit to
+For delayed logging, however, we have an asymmetric transaction commit to
 completion relationship. Every time an object is relogged in the CIL it goes
 through the commit process without a corresponding completion being registered.
 That is, we now have a many-to-one relationship between transaction commit and
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ With delayed logging, there are new steps inserted into the life cycle:
 From this, it can be seen that the only life cycle differences between the two
 logging methods are in the middle of the life cycle - they still have the same
 beginning and end and execution constraints. The only differences are in the
-commiting of the log items to the log itself and the completion processing.
+committing of the log items to the log itself and the completion processing.
 Hence delayed logging should not introduce any constraints on log item
 behaviour, allocation or freeing that don't already exist.