Documentation: Fix typos and grammatical errors

Nau4man · Jonathan Corbet · commit 8913632998fc · 2026-01-16T11:13:45.000-07:00
Fix various typos and grammatical errors across documentation files:

- Fix missing preposition 'in' in process/changes.rst
- Correct 'result by' to 'result from' in admin-guide/README.rst
- Fix 'before hand' to 'beforehand' in cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
- Correct 'allows to limit' to 'allows limiting' in hugetlb.rst,
  cgroup-v2.rst, and kconfig-language.rst
- Fix 'needs precisely know' to 'needs to precisely know'
- Correct 'overcommited' to 'overcommitted' in hugetlb.rst
- Fix subject-verb agreement: 'never causes' to 'never cause'
- Fix 'there is enough' to 'there are enough' in hugetlb.rst
- Fix 'metadatas' to 'metadata' in filesystems/erofs.rst
- Fix 'hardwares' to 'hardware' in scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx

Signed-off-by: Nauman Sabir &lt;officialnaumansabir@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20260115230110.7734-1-officialnaumansabir@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Documentation
    these typically contain kernel-specific installation notes for some
    drivers for example. Please read the
    :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>` file, as it
-   contains information about the problems, which may result by upgrading
+   contains information about the problems which may result from upgrading
    your kernel.
 
 Installing the kernel source
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/hugetlb.rst
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ control group and enforces the limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB
 doesn't support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
 that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to fault in HugeTLB
 pages beyond its limit. Therefore the application needs to know exactly how many
-HugeTLB pages it uses before hand, and the sysadmin needs to make sure that
+HugeTLB pages it uses beforehand, and the sysadmin needs to make sure that
 there are enough available on the machine for all the users to avoid processes
 getting SIGBUS.
 
@@ -91,23 +91,23 @@ getting SIGBUS.
   hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.usage_in_bytes
   hugetlb.<hugepagesize>.rsvd.failcnt
 
-The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB reservations per control
+The HugeTLB controller allows limiting the HugeTLB reservations per control
 group and enforces the controller limit at reservation time and at the fault of
 HugeTLB memory for which no reservation exists. Since reservation limits are
-enforced at reservation time (on mmap or shget), reservation limits never causes
-the application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved before hand. For
+enforced at reservation time (on mmap or shget), reservation limits never cause
+the application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved beforehand. For
 MAP_NORESERVE allocations, the reservation limit behaves the same as the fault
 limit, enforcing memory usage at fault time and causing the application to
 receive a SIGBUS if it's crossing its limit.
 
 Reservation limits are superior to page fault limits described above, since
 reservation limits are enforced at reservation time (on mmap or shget), and
-never causes the application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved
-before hand. This allows for easier fallback to alternatives such as
+never cause the application to get SIGBUS signal if the memory was reserved
+beforehand. This allows for easier fallback to alternatives such as
 non-HugeTLB memory for example. In the case of page fault accounting, it's very
-hard to avoid processes getting SIGBUS since the sysadmin needs precisely know
-the HugeTLB usage of all the tasks in the system and make sure there is enough
-pages to satisfy all requests. Avoiding tasks getting SIGBUS on overcommited
+hard to avoid processes getting SIGBUS since the sysadmin needs to precisely know
+the HugeTLB usage of all the tasks in the system and make sure there are enough
+pages to satisfy all requests. Avoiding tasks getting SIGBUS on overcommitted
 systems is practically impossible with page fault accounting.
 
 
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -2816,7 +2816,7 @@ DMEM Interface Files
 HugeTLB
 -------
 
-The HugeTLB controller allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and
+The HugeTLB controller allows limiting the HugeTLB usage per control group and
 enforces the controller limit during page fault.
 
 HugeTLB Interface Files
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/erofs.rst
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ to be as simple as possible::
   0 +1K
 
 All data areas should be aligned with the block size, but metadata areas
-may not. All metadatas can be now observed in two different spaces (views):
+may not. All metadata can be now observed in two different spaces (views):
 
  1. Inode metadata space
 
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
 
 - numerical ranges: "range" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>]
 
-  This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int
+  This allows limiting the range of possible input values for int
   and hex symbols. The user can only input a value which is larger than
   or equal to the first symbol and smaller than or equal to the second
   symbol.
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ DevFS has been obsoleted in favour of udev
 Linux documentation for functions is transitioning to inline
 documentation via specially-formatted comments near their
 definitions in the source.  These comments can be combined with ReST
-files the Documentation/ directory to make enriched documentation, which can
+files in the Documentation/ directory to make enriched documentation, which can
 then be converted to PostScript, HTML, LaTex, ePUB and PDF files.
 In order to convert from ReST format to a format of your choice, you'll need
 Sphinx.
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx b/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.sym53c8xx
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ Sat May 12 12:00 2001 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr)
 	* version sym53c8xx-1.7.3c
 	- Ensure LEDC bit in GPCNTL is cleared when reading the NVRAM.
 	  Fix sent by Stig Telfer <stig@api-networks.com>.
-	- Backport from SYM-2 the work-around that allows to support 
-	  hardwares that fail PCI parity checking.
-	- Check that we received at least 8 bytes of INQUIRY response 
+	- Backport from SYM-2 the work-around that allows to support
+	  hardware that fails PCI parity checking.
+	- Check that we received at least 8 bytes of INQUIRY response
 	  for byte 7, that contains device capabilities, to be valid.
 	- Define scsi_set_pci_device() as nil for kernel < 2.4.4.
 	- + A couple of minor changes.
