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-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt8
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
index 40a4c65..262acf5 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ test at least a couple of times in a row for confidence. [This is necessary,
because some problems only show up on a second attempt at suspending and
resuming the system.] Moreover, hibernating in the "reboot" and "shutdown"
modes causes the PM core to skip some platform-related callbacks which on ACPI
-systems might be necessary to make hibernation work. Thus, if you machine fails
+systems might be necessary to make hibernation work. Thus, if your machine fails
to hibernate or resume in the "reboot" mode, you should try the "platform" mode:
# echo platform > /sys/power/disk
diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
index 6ccb68f..ebd7490 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt
@@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ So in practice, the 'at all' may become a 'why freeze kernel threads?' and
freezing user threads I don't find really objectionable."
Still, there are kernel threads that may want to be freezable. For example, if
-a kernel that belongs to a device driver accesses the device directly, it in
-principle needs to know when the device is suspended, so that it doesn't try to
-access it at that time. However, if the kernel thread is freezable, it will be
-frozen before the driver's .suspend() callback is executed and it will be
+a kernel thread that belongs to a device driver accesses the device directly, it
+in principle needs to know when the device is suspended, so that it doesn't try
+to access it at that time. However, if the kernel thread is freezable, it will
+be frozen before the driver's .suspend() callback is executed and it will be
thawed after the driver's .resume() callback has run, so it won't be accessing
the device while it's suspended.
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